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 Telco coverage JEERS TO Rappler for its coverage of telecommunications companies, the number of which increased towards the end of 2012. Readers criticize the website for the number of its news articles that are wither advertorials or one-sided. Coalitions wanted Non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, have been recognized in the laws of many states as expressions of the right to association, but have also come about because of the political and other deficiencies in society. The continuing past (Updated) AT A lecture I gave recently to journalism students, the discussion, until now focused on the principles of news writing, was detoured by someone in the audience toward a grammatical subject – tense sequence. It is not a subject off too far, really. After all, news writing is storytelling,... Papal Bull THE RESIGNATION of Joseph Ratzinger as Pope has been in Philippine news media—in TV, radio, and print—from the time he first announced his intention to resign the Papacy up the present, when the focus of the Philippine press has shifted to the preparations for the conclave of cardinals that... Kasalanan ba ang EDSA? By Melinda Quintos de Jesus I COULD not say no, when asked to be patched in for a radio interaction with students. The program: UNTV Radio LA VERDAD 1350 kHz which had launched “Student Hour” 12:30 – 01:30 PM. The topic: “Essence of EDSA People Power Revolution for the... Challenge to the dominant press THE PHILIPPINES has a long alternative press tradition that goes back to the reform and revolutionary movements of the late 19th century—from Marcelo H. Del Pilar’s Diariong Tagalog, to La Solidaridad, Kalayaan, El Heraldo de la Revolucion, and El Renacimiento. In contrast to the dominant press—conventionally and wrongly referred... Corporate governance HERE AGAIN is one of those exchanges I find myself drawn to with students researching for academic papers and theses. This time it’s about my take as a newspaper publisher on corporate governance—that is, as I have defined it in answer to one of the questions here, “doing business... Media can help build peace in Mindanao PEACE, AT last. This was the sentiment of much of the public with the signing of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) last Oct. 15. More than reporting the stock market’s high CHEERS TO 24 Oras and the BusinessMirror for providing an additional perspective on the implications of the Philippine Stock Exchange index’s (PSEi) breaching the 6000th mark last January. Explaining the geopolitics of Scarborough CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for reminding readers of the basis of the Philippine claim on the much-disputed Panatag Shoal (or also known as Bajo de Masinloc and internationally known as the Scarborough Shoal). « Previous1…146147148149150…202Next »
