For the Record Archives - CMFR

We will not surrender our freedoms

Today, Independence Day, we renew our pledge to serve the people, to continue speaking truth to power, and to guard and defend freedom of the press and of expression from all threats.

Covering the Pandemic

Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic

The Silent Media

Native Advertising: Not just a Problem of One

Various groups express woes amid transport crisis

THE TRANSPORT crisis, along with shortages in other basic needs such as food, water, and electricity have topped media headlines in recent weeks. Media showed long lines and counted long hours of commuters standing and waiting for rides, reported bumper to bumper traffic in cities, and shared the woes...

Elephants in the room

AS OF May 18, only 786,528 individuals or 1.36 percent of the population have been fully vaccinated. This is not a promising figure, taking into account the government’s self-impose bed target of 70 million by end of 2021.

Vic Tirol: In very fond memory

by Vergel O. Santos VIC TIROL and I belonged in the same generation of journalists. We knew the press when its freedom burned properly fiercely, when it was killed suddenly, and when it burned again. That would come to more than 30 active years, longer than a generation. Those...

Unesco retains “unresolved” classification of Ampatuan massacre after appeal by groups, individuals

HUMAN RIGHTS advocates hailed the decision of Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes, promulgated on 19 December 2019 which found the primary accused in the massacre in Ampatuan, Maguindanao of 58 persons, including 32 journalists. Among the 42 suspects convicted were the primary accused members of the Ampatuan clan for their roles...

September 21: Then and Now

MANY WHO lived through the years of Martial Law, proclaimed by then Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972, are gripped by a sense of déjà vu. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to more restrictions, imposed curfews, check-points and limits on travel and movement. In these and other...

Appeal to UNESCO regarding the classification of the Ampatuan massacre case as “resolved”

Alarmed by the supposed UNESCO classification of the Ampatuan massacre case as “resolved” from news reports that were based on a press release of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFOMS), a broad group of organizations and individuals signed on to this letter that was sent to UNESCO...