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 Chronicle Pinoy wins Asian human rights award A Filipino journalist won the Asian Human Rights Press Awards on March 26, besting 400 other entries in the region. Jason Gutierrez of the Agence France Presse won for a feature story on the military’s alleged murder of Isaias Sta. Rosa, a peasant... Crisis: International Thai gov’t shuts down online forum THE Thai government has ordered the shutdown of a political chat room on the grounds of national security. The chat room Ratchadamnoen, dedicated to political discussions on the website www.Pantip.com, was ordered taken down by the Thai government on April 8 for the... Crisis: National Inquirer publisher, editors post bail for libel THE PUBLISHER and seven editors of the Philippine Daily Inquirer were detained for an hour at a Manila Police Station on March 20 after a Manila court issued warrants of arrest for a P22-million libel charge. The case was filed by President... Loses libel case filed by congressman, broadcaster lands in jail Loses libel case filed by congressman Broadcaster Lands in Jail By Jose Bimbo F. Santos MURPHY’S LAW is at work in the case of radio commentator Alex Adonis. Penniless and abandoned by his lawyer and employer, the former Bombo Radyo broadcaster is now languishing in jail for libel. Adonis... Gearing Up For The Elections: NUJP holds training for reporters NUJP holds training for reporters Gearing Up For The Elections By Don Gil K. Carreon IN 2004, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) conducted separate studies on the Philippine media’s performance during that year’s elections. The CMFR study confirmed... CMFR MONITOR OF NEWS MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE 2007 NATIONAL ELECTIONS CMFR MONITOR OF NEWS MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE 2007 NATIONAL ELECTIONS (Second monitoring period, March 3 – 16, 2007) Coverage of party-list groups gets boost from Ocampo arrest The period under review saw a sudden surge in the reportage on party-list groups—a distinct departure from the 2004 presidential elections... CMFR MONITOR OF NEWS MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE 2007 NATIONAL ELECTIONS CMFR MONITOR OF NEWS MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE 2007 NATIONAL ELECTIONS (First monitoring period, February 13 – March 2, 2007) Team Unity gets widest coverage from TV, print HERE were few surprises in the media coverage of the national elections in the first three weeks of the campaign. Both... Ang Kapatiran: Does Idealism Have News Value? Covering The Campaign Ang Kapatiran Does Idealism Have News Value? BY Christian V. Esguerra IT WASN’T exactly a reporter’s dream coverage. Why stick your nose into the business of a group of Catholics seeking to jumpstart a new kind of politics in the country? To think that with only... Genuine Opposition: Different strokes for different pols Covering The Campaign Genuine Opposition Different strokes for different pols By Toni Alejandro COVERING THE senatorial campaign of the Genuine Opposition (GO) candidates has never been easy. From day one, journalists assigned to cover opposition sorties were like headless chickens as they were kept clueless of the group’s schedules... Team Unity: Groaning under the weight of media’s demands Covering the Campaigns Team Unity Groaning under the weight of media’s demands By Leilani Lee CANDIDATES DO the most unexpected things during a campaign. They do so for additional media mileage and in the hope that those precious moments on television or paragraphs in the newspapers would result in... « Previous1…176177178179180…202Next »
