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 Public Interest in Malampaya: Everyone’s a stakeholder CHEERS TO TV5’s Frontline Tonight for its segment which helped the public understand the importance of the Malampaya gas project which was the first to develop the power of natural gas in the country. PCIJ looks into COVID impact on children in conflict with the law CHEERS TO the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism’s (PCIJ) report that looked at the situation of children in conflict with the law (CICL) during this pandemic. This Week in Media (October 25 to 29, 2021) PRE-CAMPAIGN events and government hype about the country’s return to normalcy should not distract the media from the revelations of the Right to Know, Right Now Coalition (R2KRN). Everyone knows that the Bayanihan 1 and 2 laws provided huge amounts of money to enable the Duterte government to respond... Inquirer.net and Rappler zoom in on slow vaccination pace CHEERS TO Inquirer.net and Rappler for their explanatory reports on the slowdown of the vaccination program, after the media had echoed official announcements about how the government had secured enough supplies. Finally, it seemed that the vaccine effort would now move forward enough to achieve vaccine coverage targets. But... This Week in Media (October 18 to 22, 2021) THE END of the period for the filing of certificates of candidacy has reduced some of the excitement over who’s filing for what elective post. Coverage has reverted to routine, which unfortunately requires following the declared presidential candidates as they announce their senatorial slates. The shared candidates among parties... Beyond the numbers: Reporting disaster CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for calling attention to the larger landscape of devastation that Typhoon Maring (Kompasu) left in Northern Luzon. Maring brought above a month’s average rainfall last October 11 and 12, sweeping through Cagayan Valley, the Cordilleras, the Ilocos region, Pangasinan, as well as parts... This Week in Media (October 11 to 15, 2021) 2021 IS raining gold on Filipino women—women in particular who have had challenges thrown their way including attacks by the administration.  This Week in Media (October 4 to 8, 2021) THE FILING of certificates of candidacies has not been really as exciting in recent elections. But it became an event to watch in 2021. People seem more concerned about the options they have to choose from, as they can vote only for those who do decide to run. Marcos’ loot: the details— and the relevance today CHEERS TO Rappler for publishing a detailed breakdown of the billions of public funds the dictator Ferdinand Marcos plundered during his rule.  The article has pointed current relevance; Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. declared this week his presidential candidacy in 2022. Rappler traces, analyzes propaganda network against activists CHEERS TO Rappler’s investigative report on how government propaganda has shifted the target of its demonization from “drug addicts” in 2016 to activists, red-tagging and labeling them as terrorists. Through network analysis, the article described how the anti-communist campaign draws from the same playbook used in the drug war. « Previous1…5051525354…202Next »
