CMFR Staff, Author at CMFR

Making sense of Calida’s second quo warranto

SOLICITOR GENERAL (SolGen) Jose Calida filed a quo warranto petition in the Supreme Court on February 10 asking the high court “to forfeit” ABS-CBN’s franchise, challenging the media and... Read more

FMFA’s statement on the Office of the Solicitor General’s quo warranto complaint against ABS-CBN

FREEDOM FOR Media, Freedom for All (FMFA), a national coalition of media-oriented organizations, calls for a collective front that enjoins not just journalists and news organizations, but Filipinos who... Read more

Editorial Cartoons of the Week (February 1 to 7, 2020)

Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 2, 2020 The Philippine Star, February 4, 2020 BusinessMirror, February 6, 2020 Malaya Business Insight, February 7, 2020 Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 7, 2020 Read more

Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility: Statement on Calida’s Quo Warranto

THE CENTER for Media Freedom & Responsibility (CMFR) joins the call for clarity on the legal questions arising from the latest effort to undermine media freedom: Does quo warranto... Read more

One year of rehab for Manila Bay: Beyond coliform readings

A TIMELY question a year after the “Battle for Manila Bay” was launched: Who’s winning? The government kicked off its three-phase and seven-year rehab plan for the once majestic... Read more

Continuing nCoV coverage: News organizations made a difference

FILIPINO WATCHED with alarm as China grappled with the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease (nCoV-ARD). With overseas Filipino workers in China and elsewhere, and the... Read more

The nCoV travel ban: Beyond the regional scope

PRESIDENT RODRIGO Duterte ordered a temporary ban on the entry into the Philippines of tourists from China and its special administrative regions of Macau and Hongkong. But some visitors... Read more

Journalist arrested in police raid

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — Eastern Vista newspaper Executive Director Frenchiemae Cumpio was arrested, along with four others, in simultaneous raids by Leyte police today, 7 February 2020 in Tacloban City. Tacloban... Read more

Community publication executive director threatened

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – An unidentified man bearing a bouquet of flowers and a photo of Eastern Vista newspaper Executive Director Frenchiemae Cumpio visited the office in Tacloban City, Leyte on 31... Read more

Gabino Tabuñar Jr., 94

GABINO “GABY” TABUÑAR, Jr., veteran journalist and chairman emeritus of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP), passed away on Tuesday, February 4. He was 94. In a... Read more