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Covering the Pandemic

Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic

The Silent Media

Native Advertising: Not just a Problem of One

The Tale of the (Missing) Tape

By Hector Bryant L. Macale On March 10, Presidential Chief of Staff Mike Defensor said that television station ABC-5 had a taped interview with Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim announcing his withdrawal of support from the administration. The interview supposedly took place on Feb. 23, the eve of the 20th...

REVIEW: REVIEW: Palace Documentary justifies PP1017

REVIEW: Palace Documentary justifies PP1017 SEEING TREASON n By Datu Jamal Ashley Abbas The movie Good Night and Good Luck (2005) showcased what many consider as television journalism’s finest moments when American broadcast journalist Edward Murrow and his team took head-on the Terror known as McCarthyism or the Red...

Chronicle

CMFR and Article 19 book on Philippine press out The London-based Article 19, an international human rights organization campaigning for free expression and information around the world, has just released a series of baseline studies on the state of press freedom in seven Southeast Asian countries, including the Philippines....

Crisis: International

Tarlac journalist slain A community journalist was gunned down by unidentified men on his way home on April 2 in Tarlac City. Orlando Mendoza, a columnist for several local newspapers, was ambushed by the armed men while on his way home, and sustained fatal wounds in the head and...

Crisis: International

Police closes down radio station An independent radio station in Uganda was closed down on Mar. 13 for airing a show critical of the military and a ruling party candidate in the municipal elections last February. Police in the northern town of Gulu showed the station Choice FM a...

Government and the Business of Media

By Jose L. Pavia When government runs media, it is in effect saying that the best way to tell the story of government is for it to do the telling. And, given the reach and power of media, obvious is the choice for it in getting the story told....

Covering a ‘coup’: Lost in Fort Bonifacio

By Booma B. Cruz SO WHAT really happened in Fort Bonifacio on Feb. 26? For those watching on television, it was like an unfolding drama. But for journalists who went to the military camp that day, it was more like a comedy gone awry. From start to finish, the...

The Big Chill at GMA-7

What Proclamation 1017 did The Big Chill at GMA-7 By Booma B. Cruz In less than 24 hours after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo placed the country under a state of national emergency on Feb. 24, news organizations felt the chilling effect of Proclamation 1017. The Daily Tribune was raided at...

What is Sedition?

Don’t be surprised if government officials like Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez are suddenly enumerating the provisions of the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines in justifying the continued media watch of the government, even though President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has already lifted Presidential Proclamation 1017 last March 3. The...

Petition for Certiorari, Prohibition and Declaratory Relief

(An executive summary) A. Objectives a. To declare that the Executive Department, represented by the Executive Secretary, the Secretary of Justice, the Director General of the Philippine National Police (PNP), the Chairman of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and their officers, agents or other persons acting under their authority...

We will not surrender our freedoms

Covering the Pandemic

Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic

The Silent Media

Native Advertising: Not just a Problem of One

The Tale of the (Missing) Tape

REVIEW: REVIEW: Palace Documentary justifies PP1017

Chronicle

Crisis: International

Crisis: International

Government and the Business of Media

Covering a ‘coup’: Lost in Fort Bonifacio

The Big Chill at GMA-7

What is Sedition?

Petition for Certiorari, Prohibition and Declaratory Relief

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