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 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, “Mom, I am your rich relative.” If journalism were a family, entertainment reporting could easily make the same claim as the richest... The Job that isn’t Reporting from ‘Neverland’ The Job that isn’t Reporting from ‘Neverland’ By Francis Ochoa OF COURSE, it’s the free passes. It’s the front row seats. I mean, no one ever goes through four years of journalism school inhaling the sweet scent of typewriter ribbons, saying: “I’m 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 government’s 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... Crisis: International BBC reporter freed after 114 days AFTER BEING held hostage for 114 days, British journalist Alan Johnston was finally released on the early morning of July 4. His freedom was the result of intervention by senior Muslim clerics and negotiations between Hamas and Johnston’s kidnappers. Hamas leader and former... Crisis: National After surviving ambush, 2 journalists sued for libel Two journalists who survived an ambush-slay attempt now face a lawsuit filed by the man they suspect to be behind the ambush. Delfin Mallari Jr., a Southern Luzon correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, and Johnny Glorioso, publisher of the community... Staying Tuned-In and True A journalist’s romance with television Staying Tuned-In and True By Cheche Lazaro IT’S BEEN 20 years since we first thought up the idea of putting together an investigative newsmagazine for TV. In those 20 years, the ride has at different times been uncertain and exhilarating, many times bumpy, but... POETRY, and Science, IN MOTION IN PHILIPPINE sports, basketball is king. And the Philippine press has gamely reflected the Filipino’s love affair with this sport, brought here by the Americans, by devoting much of their space and air time to it. And yet Philippine press coverage of the sport lags behind its US counter-part... Sports writing: Journalism’s Toy Department Sports writing: Journalism’s Toy Department By Don Gil K. Carreon and Jose Bimbo F. Santos ON ANY given day, newspapers would have something like this: a banner story that says five storms are about to hit the country; a story below the fold that says petroleum companies are planning... Power to The People? On the rise of citizen journalism Power to The People? By Melanie Y. Pinlac MODERN TECHNOLOGY has brought about changes in the landscape of news media. Today, another new journalistic form is challenging the norms of traditional journalism. This new form—citizen journalism—is challenging the notion that only trained and... The Return of PJR ALONG with the holding of the 17th Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism, the Philippine Journalism Review (PJR) was launched as a refereed journal on June 28. A “refereed journal” is an academic publication the articles of which are reviewed by experts or “referees” prior to publication.... « Previous1…172173174175176…203Next »
