We will not surrender our freedomsToday, 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.Read More Covering the PandemicRead more Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic TV and Entertainment THE SMALL and delightful movie, Morning Glory (2010), breezed through Manila without much fanfare and review. Chock-full of lessons on the place of news and entertainment in television, its plot projects the force of entertainment on news and the special place of morning programs in American television. Designed to... The metrics of press freedom IS IT possible to measure press freedom? I had asked the question in the early eighties when some publishers ventured to give critics some space to report and comment on sensitive political issues while Mr. (Ferdinand) Marcos was still in power. The threat of some government agency inviting one for... Observing the improbable change in Burma PHILIPPINE MEDIA gave the visit of Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario to Rangoon. But so much more has been left out of the dramatic changes taking place in Burma, the improbable and startling shift in the outlook and orientation of the country’s leadership. Women in media THE ROLE of women journalists in the Martial Law period remains unique and stand apart from the stories of other women in the country and those of women journalists in other parts of the world who suffered exile and isolation, imprisonment and death for the cause of freedom and... Media in Southeast Asia THE LANDSCAPE of Southeast Asia presents a diversity of political and governmental systems, of religions and faiths, culture and custom, history and society. Some experts have said that nothing really holds Southeast Asia together. Geography has changed, and land bridges no longer bind the islands and archipelagos to the... « Previous1…678
