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Jose Jaime “Nonoy” Espina, 59

JOSE JAIME "Nonoy" Espina, a veteran journalist and fierce advocate of press freedom, died in his home in Bacolod City after battling liver cancer on Wednesday night, July 7,... Read more

Duterte tagged a ‘press freedom predator’ by media watchdog

PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte has been tagged by a worldwide watchdog as a "press freedom predator." Read more

OML Center Balangay Media Project

The Oscar M. Lopez Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management (OML Center) is accepting applications from local media practitioners and climate change advocates for their Balangay... Read more

Covering Taal: Media more responsible than the President

CHEERS TO the media for their swift and science-based reporting on the eruption of Taal Volcano last July 1, without hype or sensationalism. Cheers as well for critically countering... Read more

Media still mum on leadership vacuum; PNOY remembered

THE DEATH of former President Benigno Aquino III, or PNoy as he himself asked to be called, shocked the country because it was so unexpected. While Aquino kept his... Read more

Radio program airs offensive comments on Aquino death

JEERS to guest host and lawyer Larry Gadon for grossly insensitive remarks and his use of foul language when he announced the death of former President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino... Read more

Not a race: Aquino’s death reported in media rush to be first

JEERS TO those media organizations that cared more about beating the competition in announcing the death of President Benigno S. C. Aquino III. On June 24, The Daily Tribune... Read more

PRESS CHAMPION AND ADVOCATE

THE Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility mourns the passing of former President Benigno “Noynoy”Aquino III. We condole with his family and with the rest of the nation... Read more

No longer an ‘Isolated Case’: Media miss the pattern of state killings

PUBLIC OUTCRY took over the internet as a law enforcer, Police Master Sergeant Hensie Zinampan, killed a 52-year-old woman in Quezon City on May 31 mainly because he felt... Read more

Like father, like daughter: Reprising Duterte’s 2015 campaign strategy

JEERS TO the media for reporting Sara Dutere-Carpio’s pre-2022 campaign without pointing out that the family is using the same tactic that the father used in his presidential run... Read more