CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

ANC’s “After The Fact” goes off the air

THE ANC current affairs talk show “After The Fact” aired its last episode on March 30, 2022. Read more

This Week in Media (March 28 to April 1, 2022)

COVID-19 SEEMS to have receded as a government concern, but other problems have made life for most Filipinos as difficult as ever. Read more

Media quick to record warnings election watchdogs

CMFR CHEERS the media accounts highlighting the looming threats to free and fair elections in May. From the start of the national campaign, some citizen groups have warned about... Read more

CNN election reports spotlight marginalized sectors

CHEERS TO CNN Philippines for its program “Sectors in the Sidelines,” which highlights the concerns of those communities that are commonly marginalized in the news. "Sectors in the Sidelines"... Read more

Past, Present, and Future: Media mark Women’s Month

THE COVID-19 pandemic, the May elections, and the conflict in Ukraine and its economic after-shocks could have made it difficult for media to highlight women’s issues during Women’s Month,... Read more

ICSC offers grants to journos in honor of Jaime “Nonoy” Espina

THE INSTITUTE for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC), an international non-government organization advocating for fair climate policy and low carbon, climate-resilient development, is offering journalists the ‘Jaime Espina Klima... Read more

Fuel Crisis takes over front pages; print and online media report unverified campaign claims

The red-tagging story was also picked up by The Philippine Star, Manila Standard, and Manila Times in their front pages. Star and Standard cited an ‘intelligence report’ and Duterte’s... Read more

Political and election-related controversies highlighted in the fifth and six weeks of the campaign period

METHODOLOGY: CMFR reviewed and analyzed primetime news programs of four broadcast stations: GMA-7’s 24 Oras and 24 Oras Weekend, ABS-CBN’s TV Patrol and TV Patrol Weekend, CNN Philippines’ News... Read more

This Week in Media, March 21 to 25

THE DOUBLE-DIGIT price rollback for diesel fuel and other petroleum products was probably the best news for Filipinos this week. But media continued to feature the demands of public... Read more

Inquirer.net misrepresents source in report praising Lacson, Sotto

JEERS TO Inquirer.net for an article heaping praised on Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates Ping Lacson and Tito Sotto for their performance in the recent Comelec “PiliPinas” debates. The piece... Read more