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 Covering Crime Life as a police reporter Covering Crime By Willard Cheng It was 5:45 a.m. I was ready to call it a dayâor nightâwhen I got a call from our news desk. âRush to SLEX. A truck just plowed into a house. One person is killed,â desk editor Paul Espiritu... Editor’s Note: Recognizing power During the waning Marcos years, the late Mark Fineman who was covering the Philippines for the Los Angeles Times once loudly asked if anyone had a match so he could light his cigarette. Faster than he could finish his sentence, two Filipinos seated beside him quickly offered their lighters,... Speaking of Media On responsibility and repression âOne person who has absolutely lost all right to tell this countryâs media to act in a responsible manner is Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. One of the most galling experiences that a citizen of this country has to undergo these days is to be told by Virgilio... Monitors Hide-and-seek with the military For evading and shutting out almost all media in a very important coverage last April 12, both the Philippine Daily Inquirer (âAFP clears four generals: Top brass avoid media, release report on govât TV,â April 13) and the Big News put to task Vice-Admiral Mateo... When Governments Put Journalists in Jail Across Asia, press freedom and economic prosperity donât mix When Governments Put Journalists in Jail By Nathan Lee and Don Gil K. Carreon WHILE JOURNALISTS in Iraq and the Philippines struggle to dodge bullets, scores of other media practitioners across Asia continue to languish behind prison bars. Despite the... Cyberspace: The New Combat Zone Governments seek to control âcitizen mediaâ Cyberspace: The new combat zone By Hector Bryant L. Macale There is a new arena in the fight for freedom of expression. This is cyberspace, a new zone where a conflict rages between those who promote free expression and those who seek to... Harbinger of Bigger Troubles? By Hector Bryant L. Macale and Venus L. Elumbre On April 5, the New York Times came out with an editorial criticizing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for having âcompletely lost touch with the ideals that inspired the âpeople powerâ movement.â The editorial, which was quickly played up by the... Covering a âConspiracyâ A âplotâ fails, the government strikes back, and a reporter is in trouble Covering a âConspiracyâ By Ellen Tordesillas A cardinal rule in news reporting is: never burn your sources. Yet that was precisely what Time magazine did to Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim and businessman Pastor Saycon in its... Crisis: National Court orders govât to reply to journalistsâ petition The Court of Appeals has summoned the government to answer the petition of media organizations and journalists seeking to prohibit the government, particularly executive-branch officials, from restraining media and intimidating journalists. In a resolution dated April 7 and written by Associate... Crisis: International Nepal cracks down on journalists More Nepalese journalists are being jailed for participating in the countryâs struggle for press freedom. According to the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ), more than 200 Nepalese journalists have been detained since April 4, 2006. Thirty-one journalists remain under arrest as of April 18.... « Previous1…196197198199200…202Next »
