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 Out of context By Luis V. Teodoro PROVIDING CONTEXT is not a strong suit of the dominant media,* whether in the form of a few paragraphs recalling the background of events, a sidebar, or an entire article recalling the history of the public issues they report on. Context is often... Regional perspective on media reforms in Myanmar By Melinda Quintos de Jesus The landscape of media freedom in Southeast Asia shows a mix of government regimes and media systems. To provide a regional perspective is therefore a complex task. A relic of colonial times By Luis V. Teodoro LIBEL AS a means of repression has been problematic in the Philippines even before the Revised Penal Code (RPC) went into effect in January, 1932. Criminal libel is unconstitutional By Melinda Quintos de Jesus THERE IS a lot to say about the Cybercrime Prevention Act. And a lot more will be said now that the Supreme Court has upheld some of its key provisions. Journalism’s not about the journalist By Luis. V. Teodoro WHATEVER THE medium — whether print, broadcast or online — journalism is about the news, not about the journalist. What’s most relevant to readers, viewers and listeners is what’s happening and what it means to them, not what the journalist thinks about it, or how it... Media and change: Expecting the impossible THE MOST powerful organizations in the world are not governments but corporations, and among the most powerful corporations are the global media conglomerates. Problem solving journalism THE FIRST blog for 2014 may be a good time to suggest once again that we need to change the way we do journalism. This is not the first time I have echoed the call heard in other press communities to re-think and revise the notions of news, of... The never ending story The elections of 2013 were over only seven months ago. But preparations are already under way for the elections of 2016, when the electorate once more goes to the polls to elect the President of the Republic and other national officials. Speculation is already rife on who the... Into the breach By Luis V. Teodoro The martial law period haunts us still. Its ghosts are not only threatening Leyte’s Tacloban City in the form of the demand of both the local government and the business community that President Benigno Aquino III declare martial law there, and the latter’s alleged openness to... Plagiarism: No ‘Ifs,’ ‘Ands,’ or ‘Buts’ PLAGIARISM IS theft. Both as a form of dishonesty and for its consequences, the practice of copying someone else’s ideas and written work and passing them off as one’s own is one of the worst ethical offenses one can commit in academia, literature, public life, and journalism. « Previous12345…9Next »
