Focus on indigenous peoples

Cheers to Saksi deviating from the usual Manila-centric type of reporting to bring public attention to a case of ancient burial theft and the state of an endangered language in Quirino province.

Headlining Trivia (on Prezi)

Headlining trivia

Jeers to the Philippine Daily Inquirer for making a brawl between public figures its May 7 lead story at the expense of other issues.

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.

PJR Reports March-April 2012

The practice of summoning journalists to testify in court or during congressional hearings is based on the popular assumption that they possess secret information of relevance to the trial or hearings. It is practically unheard of for journalists to be summoned before such bodies to testify on, or...