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PCIJ 2nd National Conference on Investigative Journalism

THE PHILIPPINE Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) will be holding its 2nd National Conference on Investigative Journalism. It will take place entirely online. Read more

Cautionary truths on the “decline” of COVID numbers

AT THE risk of being a spoil sport, CMFR is asking the media to provide the necessary context to the government’s determination to relax COVID restrictions. Read more

Inquirer.net and Rappler zoom in on slow vaccination pace

CHEERS TO Inquirer.net and Rappler for their explanatory reports on the slowdown of the vaccination program, after the media had echoed official announcements about how the government had secured... Read more

Philippine Media Statement on Maria Ressa’s Nobel Peace Prize

WE JOIN our fellow Filipinos in celebrating the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize given to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitri Muratov. Read more

This Week in Media (October 18 to 22, 2021)

THE END of the period for the filing of certificates of candidacy has reduced some of the excitement over who’s filing for what elective post. Coverage has reverted to... Read more

Under-reported and continuing: A pattern of police violence against quarantine violators

IN OCTOBER 2021 alone, media reported several cases of extortion and rape involving the police when dealing with persons supposedly in violation of curfew and other quarantine restrictions. But... Read more

Beyond the numbers: Reporting disaster

CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for calling attention to the larger landscape of devastation that Typhoon Maring (Kompasu) left in Northern Luzon. Maring brought above a month’s average... Read more

This Week in Media (October 11 to 15, 2021)

2021 IS raining gold on Filipino women—women in particular who have had challenges thrown their way including attacks by the administration. Read more

Congratulations to Maria Ressa and the Nobel Foundation

CMFR JOINS freedom loving Filipinos in celebrating the choice of Filipino journalist Maria Ressa as a recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. The recognition is for more than... Read more

Journalist Maria Ressa wins Philippines’ first Nobel Prize

ON OCTOBER 8, Rappler’s CEO Maria Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 "for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is... Read more