CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

Plight and neglect of health workers a continuing crisis

JEERS TO the media for failing to include the context in reporting the delay of payments for medical frontliners, highlighted by the COA report released last week. News reports... Read more

Online media clarify COA’s mandate amid Duterte complaints

CHEERS TO online media for reminding the public about the Commission on Audit’s (COA) role and mandate, and explaining why the President can’t order state auditors to stop reporting... Read more

This Week in Media (August 9 to 13, 2021)

WITH THE worsening crisis of COVID-19, Filipinos heard loud and clear the global alarm over climate-related disaster. Media did not pick up as quickly on the Intergovernmental Panel on... Read more

Sport lang tayo: Serious funding needed

MONDAY AFTER the Tokyo Olympics closed, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque was quick to claim credit for the country’s best Olympic campaign yet, saying that it was “no coincidence” that... Read more

Inquirer.net connects Duterte threats to public panic

CHEERS TO Inquirer.net for finding evidence that confirms how the president himself has contributed to public panic which led to the crowding in vaccine centers on August 5, the... Read more

Funding problems take backseat in coverage of PH Olympic performance

FILIPINO ATHLETES lifted the spirits of the whole nation as they brought home one gold, two silvers and one bronze from the Tokyo Olympics 2020, larger than the medal... Read more

Reporting IPCC findings: Online media sound the alarm on climate change in the PH

for highlighting the alarm sounded by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and for reporting the precise significance of its findings for the Philippines. Read more

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