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Inquirer apologizes to libel plaintiff for 2014 PDAF stories; Former editor hits management for apology

THE PHILIPPINE Daily Inquirer on 30 July 2021 issued an apology to dzBB news anchor Carmelo del Prado for its 2014 investigative reports linking the broadcaster to the 10-billion... Read more

ANFREL SEA Media Fellowship on Election Reporting

THE ASIAN Network for Free Elections (ANFREL) is calling for applications for its media fellowship on election reporting for Southeast Asian journalists. Read more

This Week in Media (AUGUST 2 to 6, 2021)

THIS TIME last year, a broad alliance of medical professionals and healthcare workers had called for a “time-out” to give the overwhelmed healthcare system time to recover and to... Read more

Third NCR ECQ: Media holds back on criticism of government unpreparedness

JEERS TO the media for failing to question the government’s lack of preparedness in implementing the third enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in NCR plus during the pandemic. Having seen... Read more

This Week in Media (JULY 26 to 30, 2021)

IT WOULD have been an entirely different week without the country’s first ever Olympic gold win by athlete Hidilyn Diaz. In a week darkened by storm clouds and drenched... Read more

First Olympic Gold overshadows Duterte’s last SONA: Media stop the presses for Hidilyn Diaz

HIDILYN DIAZ’S historic triumph in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics came just over an hour after President Rodrigo Duterte ended his two-hour and forty-five minute State of the Nation Address... Read more

Correction please, Mr. President! — Media

CHEERS TO Philstar.com, Rappler, and VERA Files for fact-checking and providing context as they live-tweeted President Duterte’s last State... Read more

This Week in Media (July 19 to 23, 2021)

FEW WOULD claim that pre-campaign politics or Rodrigo Duterte’s coming State of the Nation Address could compete in terms of relevance with the news of local cases of an... Read more

PDP-Laban: No longer in touch with its legacy

THE INFIGHTING within the party which carried him to the presidency ended with Rodrigo Duterte bragging about how he had given new life to a dormant Partido Demokratiko Pilipino... Read more

Cebu blocktimer shot dead outside radio station

PINES – An unknown gunman aboard a motorcycle shot and killed a radio blocktimer on 22 July 2021 in Cebu city. Cebu city is 1,000km south of Manila. Read more