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We will not surrender our freedoms

Today, 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.

Covering the Pandemic

Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic

The Silent Media

Native Advertising: Not just a Problem of One

A Wanton Disregard for Press Freedom

A Wanton Disregard for Press Freedom (The following statement was drafted by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines in response to the libel cases filed by First Gentleman Mike Arroyo. It was signed by 648 journalists (as of Oct. 11) and 41 local and international groups such...

A Slew of Libel Suits

First Gentleman Mike Arroyo takes 43 journalists to court A Slew of Libel Suits By Nathan Lee and Jose Bimbo F. Santos FIRST GENTLEMAN Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo is trying to say something and it’s not “Hello.” In recent months, 10 libel suits against 43 journalists were filed by...

When a source denies your story

By Fe Zamora A LIBEL case is best left to a lawyer to deal with. A denial from a contending party, like Malacañang or an Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesman who denies a report on a coup plot, can still make for good follow-up story. Fellow journalists...

A Story— And a Source— Goes Awry

A Story— And a Source— Goes Awry And a reporter is left holding the bag By Hector Bryant L. Macale ON SEPT. 1, the Philippine Daily Inquirer ran an exclusive story that confirmed a chilling though long-held suspicion: despite warnings about possible terrorist attacks, security remains lax in the...

Monitors: TV

Cake and candles in the news Okay, we all have the right to celebrate our birthdays, but must journalists do this during a newscast? Toward the end of the Sept. 15 edition of Teledyaryo, the national government television network’s prime news program, anchor Angelique Lazo announced the birthday of...

Monitors: Print

More than just remembering The Manila Times made the anniversary of Philippine History Week from Sept. 15 to 21 more meaningful by coming up with interesting reports that featured topics like the controversial Makabayan education curriculum that lumped the study of Philippine history with other subjects, the controversial “Order...

Speaking of Media

The Arroyos and the press “….In a speech during the Unesco World Press Freedom Day celebration four years ago in Malacañang, the President said: ‘We celebrate the responsible exercise of press freedom. . . In the Philippines, we are known not only as a free press but having a...

Editor’s Note: A sliver of good news

IN A country where libel cases have often been filed but have seldom prospered, occasions where public officials do present such charges have traditionally been regarded by journalists as par for the course. Hazards of the trade, so to speak, that can be lived with even as one goes...

Why I Left Puerto Princesa

By Yasmin Arquiza In 1989, my bureau chief at the Associated Press sent me to Puerto Princesa to write environmental feature stories. My journey began with a trek to the St. Paul National Park, where I stared in awe at majestic limestone cliffs and mist-covered forests. As a city...

Obituaries

Accident kills 3 ABC-5 crew members Three ABC-5 network crew members died on the spot when their vehicle collided with a passenger bus in Pamplona, Camarines Sur last Aug. 13. Senior reporter Anna Liza “Hazel” Richeta-Calimag, 37; cameraman Arnel Guiao, 42; and assistant cameraman Ismael “Maeng” Cabugayan, 37, were...