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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

Editor’s Note: Now you see them, now you don’t

EXCEPT FOR the occasional typhoon and other disasters, when was the last time you saw a story on health, the environment, or education on the front page of your newspaper? These are the stories that disappear quite literally into the inside pages, if not into oblivion. Under the barrage...

The journalist as migrant

A reporter finds happiness in an unlikely niche The journalist as migrant n By Divina C. Paredes ”Journalism… gives you a front-row seat to life and all its opportunities.” Charles L. Overby, Freedom Forum, 1995 AUCKLAND—While finalizing the cover of a recent issue of CIO New Zealand magazine, I...

Chronicle

SEAPA’s 2007 journalism fellowship program opens APPLICATIONS are being accepted for the 2007 SEAPA (Southeast Asian Press Alliance) Journalism Fellowship Program which has the theme, “Human Rights vs a Culture of Impunity in Southeast Asia.” Fifteen fellowship slots are available to journalists from Southeast Asia. To be eligible for...

Crisis: International

W. African president’s brother sues for libel L’EVÉNEMENT, A bi-monthly publication in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in West Africa, was tried for libel on Jan. 8 after François Compaoré, brother of President Blaise Compaoré, filed a complaint for articles linking him to the 1998 murder of journalist Norbert Zongo. The...

Crisis: National

Ilocos Norte reporter killed A RADIO reporter and community paper journalist was stabbed to death on Dec. 20 last year in Batac, Ilocos Norte. Andres “Andy” Acosta, 46, reporter for dzJC and the monthly community paper Northern Light, was on his way home from a Christmas party of reporters...

The Presscon That Wasn’t

A reporter’s ringside view of an incident The Presscon That Wasn’t By Ellen Tordesillas ARRIVING AT the Dusit Hotel for the press conference called by Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. on Dec. 9, 2006, I found all the seats behind the TV cameras occupied. Three rows of seats in front...

Media reporting on HIV/AIDS

Covering a ‘silent story’ Media reporting on HIV/AIDS By Ma. Diosa Labiste MEDIA COVERAGE of HIV/AIDS* in the country is generally sympathetic but remains seasonal and, sometimes, sensational. These were some of the findings of a study by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines under the International...

Living in Dangerous Times

Survival tips for journalists Living in Dangerous Times By Junette B. Galagala N THE Philippines, where some journalists regard libel suits as badges of honor, threats are seen as part of the journalist’s territory. But in a country that has been ranked as the second most dangerous place in...

The struggles of the community press

The struggles of the community press Surviving politics and poverty By Nathan Lee and Jose Bimbo F. Santos CAN AN independent press survive in an environment of political warlordism and economic want? Members of the country’s provincial press have long been wrestling with this question. In some community papers,...

Bangkok Declaration

Bangkok Declaration Asia Media Forum Bangkok, December 17-19, 2006 This declaration was drafted in a conference sponsored by the Asia Media Forum in Bangkok, Thailand, on Dec. 17-19, 2006. The event was attended by journalists and journalism educators from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, the People’s Republic of China, Indonesia,...