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: Elections and acts of terror ELECTIONS HAVE always turned the spotlight on politicians, particularly the candidates. What they do—and what they don’t do—is the stuff that journalists write about. This issue of the PJR Reports will do that, too, but in a different way. It will show how politicians deal with journalists during their... The rewards and heartaches of photojournalism: Life behind the lens By Mike Perez FLASH REPORT! Tatlo patay…” an announcer blurts out from an AM radio. It’s 8:30 a.m. Everyone pauses. Their attention is drawn to the radio the way that bits of steel are drawn to a magnet. Conversations stop as they wait for the next words of the... Obituaries Modena, 58 ANTONIO MODENA, a diplomat and a former deskman of Malaya, died of pneumonia and heart complications on Feb. 17 in Pasig City. He was 58. Modena, who was also undergoing treatment for cancer, was a reporter and president of the labor union of the defunct Times Journal... Chronicle CMFR publishes ethics manual AS A contribution to the efforts to further professionalize journalism practice in the Philippines, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) has released an ethics manual for journalists and media practitioners in the country last March. Based on American journalism scholar Edmund Lambeth’s values... Crisis: International US gov’t muzzles scientists TESTIMONIES from several witnesses, including former government scientists, heard at the House of Representatives’s Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Jan. 30 described how their scientific reports about climate change were altered and watered down following pressure from the Bush administration. A recent study... Crisis: National Five journalists post bail; editor spends night in police station THREE editors, including one who was arrested and spent a night in a police station, a staff writer, and a former managing director of Newsbreak magazine, each posted a P10,500 bail bond at the Pasig City police station on... The life and death of a crusader: The Ghost Of Dong Batul By Yasmin D. Arquiza Despite his vehement denials, Puerto Princesa Mayor Edward Hagedorn is still haunted by the suspicion that he had something to do with the assassination of popular Palawan broadcaster Fernando “Dong” Batul. While it is true that Batul offended many people—politicians, military officials, rival radio commentators,... Reporters Without Borders on the Philippine press:More Murders and a New Enemy Despite new arrests of murderers, the autho-rities failed to stem the wave of vio-lence against journalists. At least six were killed in 2006. And the press also found itself facing a new enemy: Jose Miguel Arroyo, the husband of President Gloria Maca-pagal Arroyo, who took out a raft of... The UN envoy on the political killings: ‘In a State of Denial’ By Rachel E. Khan After ten days in the Philippines, Philip Alston, the United Nations (UN) special rapporteur for extrajudicial killings, found a way to describe the problem of summary executions in the country. He compared it to alcoholism. Until an alcoholic admits he has a drinking problem, he... The way you sound tonight DRAWING AN audience entails substantial research into the demographics of the viewing public. According to ABS-CBN’s current affairs head Luchi Cruz Valdes, the audience profile became more masa in the late 1990s. When ABS-CBN launched TV Patrol as its primetime newscast in 1987, it banked on the concept of... « Previous1…178179180181182…202Next »
