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 Monitor Solid reporting ABS-CBNâs Bandila did a good job in its June 22 exclusive report on the Maguindanao elections. Its news team saw two election returns (ERs) obtained from a source identified as a certain Roel, allegedly a provincial coordinator of Partido ng Masa in Maguindanao. The ERs indicated that... Print Monitor Whoâs afraid of Amalia Fuentes? THE PHILIPPINE Star yielded front-page space to a showbiz news story that stood out for its lack of balance and crassness. Last July 20, the Star reported that retired movie actress Amalia Fuentes had decided to divorce her allegedly philandering husband, Joseph Stevens. A... Speaking of Media Indifference of govâts âAt a time when escalating cases of extrajudicial killings and involuntary disappearances seemed to have desensi-tized society, preventing it from unleashing a just human rage, the media must be there to keep the flames of justice burning by reminding society that every victimâs story deserves to... Editor’s Note: Beyond entertainment YEARS AGO, on the cusp of an inexplicably successful career in show business, Kris Aquino was said to have told her mother, former President Corazon C. Aquino, âMom, I am your rich relative.â If journalism were a family, entertainment reporting could easily make the same claim as the richest... The Job that isnât Reporting from âNeverlandâ The Job that isnât Reporting from âNeverlandâ By Francis Ochoa OF COURSE, itâs the free passes. Itâs the front row seats. I mean, no one ever goes through four years of journalism school inhaling the sweet scent of typewriter ribbons, saying: âIâm going to be a sportswriter someday, so... CHRONiCLE Jailed Chinese journalist gets Golden Pen of Freedom A CHINESE journalist serving a 10-year prison sentence for revealing his governmentâs orders to newspapers to censor their reporting of the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary was awarded the 2007 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize from the World... Crisis: International BBC reporter freed after 114 days AFTER BEING held hostage for 114 days, British journalist Alan Johnston was finally released on the early morning of July 4. His freedom was the result of intervention by senior Muslim clerics and negotiations between Hamas and Johnstonâs kidnappers. Hamas leader and former... Crisis: National After surviving ambush, 2 journalists sued for libel Two journalists who survived an ambush-slay attempt now face a lawsuit filed by the man they suspect to be behind the ambush. Delfin Mallari Jr., a Southern Luzon correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and Johnny Glorioso, publisher of the community... Staying Tuned-In and True A journalistâs romance with television Staying Tuned-In and True By Cheche Lazaro ITâS BEEN 20 years since we first thought up the idea of putting together an investigative newsmagazine for TV. In those 20 years, the ride has at different times been uncertain and exhilarating, many times bumpy, but... POETRY, and Science, IN MOTION IN PHILIPPINE sports, basketball is king. And the Philippine press has gamely reflected the Filipinoâs love affair with this sport, brought here by the Americans, by devoting much of their space and air time to it. And yet Philippine press coverage of the sport lags behind its US counter-part... « Previous1…4243444546…61Next »
