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 What To Do in a Hostage Situation THE DUCAT hostage-taking crisis is a coverage replete with lessons. Members of the press would do well to remember them in order to avoid repeating mistakes which, at best, created confusion among the audience and at worst, led to tragedy. Early this year, the Center for Media Freedom and... Held Hostage to an Event ‘May Uzi si Mr. Ducat!’ Held hostage to an event By Hector Bryant L. Macale TELEVISION VIEWERS watched in horror last March 28 when Armando Ducat Jr., owner of a day-care center in Tondo, Manila, held hostage 26 of his pupils and four teachers inside a bus near the... Online Monitors Assessing the party-list system Bulatlat wrote an informative and insightful two-part special report that focused on a very crucial question as this year’s elections draw near: “Nine years after the first party-list elections, 12 years after the passage of Republic Act No. 7941, and 20 years after the ratification... TV Monitors A pro-GMA station Primetime Teledyaryo, the news program of state-owned NBN-4, leaves no doubt that it is a pro-administration station; its reporters, administration spokespersons. Last March 19, Joseph Parafina reported on a recent meeting of small-scale entrepreneurs who were supposedly happy with the economic growth under the Arroyo administration.... Print Monitors Sharing a point of view The Manila Standard Today seems to be looking at the elections through the lens of the administration. Quoting Team Unity (TU) spokesman Antonio “Tonypet” Albano, the paper reported that the opposition is in trouble (“Opposition in disarray says Unity,” March 20). “The senatorial campaign... Speaking of Media A simple arrangement “I’ve heard stories about reporters who are now on the payroll either of re-electionist senators or those taking a first crack at the senatorial campaign. This is old news to me, of course, something that comes out each time politicians start campaigning for elective posts. “It’s... Editor’s Note: Elections and acts of terror ELECTIONS HAVE always turned the spotlight on politicians, particularly the candidates. What they do—and what they don’t do—is the stuff that journalists write about. This issue of the PJR Reports will do that, too, but in a different way. It will show how politicians deal with journalists during their... The rewards and heartaches of photojournalism: Life behind the lens By Mike Perez FLASH REPORT! Tatlo patay…” an announcer blurts out from an AM radio. It’s 8:30 a.m. Everyone pauses. Their attention is drawn to the radio the way that bits of steel are drawn to a magnet. Conversations stop as they wait for the next words of the... Obituaries Modena, 58 ANTONIO MODENA, a diplomat and a former deskman of Malaya, died of pneumonia and heart complications on Feb. 17 in Pasig City. He was 58. Modena, who was also undergoing treatment for cancer, was a reporter and president of the labor union of the defunct Times Journal... Chronicle CMFR publishes ethics manual AS A contribution to the efforts to further professionalize journalism practice in the Philippines, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) has released an ethics manual for journalists and media practitioners in the country last March. Based on American journalism scholar Edmund Lambeth’s values... « Previous1…4950515253…61Next »
