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DNA as evidence

Cheers to Vera Files for a two-part investigative report on the plight of rape victims in the country. The March 5 investigative report “Systemic silencing: Little incentive to cry ‘rape!’” (http://verafiles.org/systemic-silencing-little-incentive-to-cry-rape/) and “Few rape cases filed, prosper” on March 6 (http://verafiles.org/12466/) found that many rape cases in the country...

Preparing for the elections

Cheers to the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) for its timely focus on next year’s elections, which are only a little more than a year away. ANC started looking into issues related to the 2013 midterm elections with its ANC Presents: Road to 2013 special which first aired last April...

Covering the Impeachment Missing: The Voice of the People

In apparent awareness of the trial’s significance, the major networks and broadsheets as well as online news sites understandably invested resources in its coverage by sending multiple news teams to cover both the trial and related events. PJR Reports monitored four major networks which covered the trial...

The press as judge

JEERS TO Korina Sanchez for a column in the Cebu City newspaper The Freeman in which she prejudged the guilt of Philippine Navy personnel on the ongoing Philip Pestaño case.

‘Correct way’

CHEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for a story on how to best refer to people with disability.

Raising awareness

CHEERS TO GMA News & Research and GMA Special Assignments Team for raising awareness on safe water and basic sanitation as a human right.

Media coverage of the Reyes Suicide: Breaking all the rules

by Kathryn Roja G. Raymundo Published in the January – February 2011 issue of PJR Reports When news broke in the morning of Feb. 8 that former cabinet secretary and retired armed forces chief Angelo T. Reyes had died of a gunshot wound to the chest, the press went out...

A Story— And a Source— Goes Awry

A Story— And a Source— Goes Awry And a reporter is left holding the bag By Hector Bryant L. Macale ON SEPT. 1, the Philippine Daily Inquirer ran an exclusive story that confirmed a chilling though long-held suspicion: despite warnings about possible terrorist attacks, security remains lax in the...

Monitors: TV

Cake and candles in the news Okay, we all have the right to celebrate our birthdays, but must journalists do this during a newscast? Toward the end of the Sept. 15 edition of Teledyaryo, the national government television network’s prime news program, anchor Angelique Lazo announced the birthday of...

Monitors: Print

More than just remembering The Manila Times made the anniversary of Philippine History Week from Sept. 15 to 21 more meaningful by coming up with interesting reports that featured topics like the controversial Makabayan education curriculum that lumped the study of Philippine history with other subjects, the controversial “Order...