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 A Summit on āSalvagingsā and Abductions A pro-active Supreme Court leads a conference on extrajudicial killings A Summit on āSalvagingsā and Abductions By Jose Bimbo F. Santos NO MORE than 10 percent of the 70 cases of journalists killed in the line of duty since 1986 have resulted in a conviction. Out of the 33... The Power Of Showbiz News Why Boy, lolit and cristy ARE here to stay The Power Of Showbiz News By Junette B. Galagala IN FEBRUARY, the public lapped up the Kris Aquino-James Yap drama which the media had been playing up for at least two weeks. Three months later, it was the Ruffa Gutierrez-Yilmaz... The New News Target: OFWs Media companies find a bigger, richer market The New News Target: OFWs By Don Gil K. Carreon CONSIDER THESE numbers: ā¢$12.8 billion: the amount, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas,Ā remitted by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) last year, excluding those coursed through informal channels; ā¢8.2 million: the number... Cheers of the month Focusing on the deserving THANKS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the spotlight was finally put on a different breed of public school teachersāthe mobile ones. āThe Department of Educationās āmobile teachers,ā or MTs, are not your typical public school teachers,ā the Inquirer reported on June 27. āThey travel long... TV Monitor Solid reporting ABS-CBNās Bandila did a good job in its June 22 exclusive report on the Maguindanao elections. Its news team saw two election returns (ERs) obtained from a source identified as a certain Roel, allegedly a provincial coordinator of Partido ng Masa in Maguindanao. The ERs indicated that... Print Monitor Whoās afraid of Amalia Fuentes? THE PHILIPPINE Star yielded front-page space to a showbiz news story that stood out for its lack of balance and crassness. Last July 20, the Star reported that retired movie actress Amalia Fuentes had decided to divorce her allegedly philandering husband, Joseph Stevens. A... Speaking of Media Indifference of govāts āAt a time when escalating cases of extrajudicial killings and involuntary disappearances seemed to have desensi-tized society, preventing it from unleashing a just human rage, the media must be there to keep the flames of justice burning by reminding society that every victimās story deserves to... Editor’s Note: Beyond entertainment YEARS AGO, on the cusp of an inexplicably successful career in show business, Kris Aquino was said to have told her mother, former President Corazon C. Aquino, āMom, I am your rich relative.ā If journalism were a family, entertainment reporting could easily make the same claim as the richest... The Job that isnāt Reporting from āNeverlandā The Job that isnāt Reporting from āNeverlandā By Francis Ochoa OF COURSE, itās the free passes. Itās the front row seats. I mean, no one ever goes through four years of journalism school inhaling the sweet scent of typewriter ribbons, saying: āIām going to be a sportswriter someday, so... CHRONiCLE Jailed Chinese journalist gets Golden Pen of Freedom A CHINESE journalist serving a 10-year prison sentence for revealing his governmentās orders to newspapers to censor their reporting of the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary was awarded the 2007 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize from the World... « Previous1…170171172173174…202Next »
