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 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... Estimating Crowd Size How can the press better estimate crowd size? Brown-skin chauvinism: GMA-7, Clavio should apologize (updated) JEERS TO GMA-7’s Arnold Clavio for his remarks on the Philippine national men’s football team, popularly known as “Azkals,” during the network’s morning program Unang Hirit last March 13. In exchange for trash CHEERS TO Under Special Investigation (USI) of TV5 for its January 22 episode on female prostitutes living in a dumpsite and who accept trash from garbage collectors as payment for sex. In turn, the prostitutes sell whatever trash is recyclable to feed their families. Re-evaluating anti-poverty strategy CHEERS TO GMA News for its special report reviewing the poverty reduction and social development strategy of the government called “Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program or 4Ps”. (24 Oras, Jan. 10; State of the Nation with Jessica Soho, Jan. 11 and Feb. 2) Inquirer apologizes JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for publishing photos of Corona defense witness Demetrio Vicente on its March 14 front page that was unflattering at least and malicious at most. Vicente had taken the stand to disprove allegations that Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona had failed to disclose... 6th Hildegarde Awards cites PJR Reports PJR Reports (PJRR), the country’s first and only media-monitoring publication, was cited for outstanding achievement in print journalism at the 6th Hildegarde Awards for Women in Media and Communication. Covering CoronaMedia in aid of accountability THE MEDIA coverage of the ongoing impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona is generally fair. But the tendency of the press to be reactive when reporting has once more made it vulnerable to spins. News and media organizations have kept the issue on the public’s radar screen with breaking... Journalists in the news Some journalists who covered or are still covering the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona—which for weeks has been the biggest story in print, broadcasting, and online media—have become the story themselves. « Previous1…155156157158159…202Next »
