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 News Agenda Failure?Focus On a Wedding THE COVERAGE of the British royal wedding showed how the Philippine press evaluates which events are newsworthy. Of the conventional news values, human interest and prominence usually take precedence over significance. Other stories which may have a larger impact on people’s lives are not prioritized or are left out... News as Entertainment PRESIDENT AQUINO's love life, Pope John Paul II’s beatification, and the British royal wedding were among the major stories in the Philippine media last April. These landed on the front pages or were leading stories in the major broadsheets and TV news programs. Although one could speculate that... Reporting the Number by Bernadette Reyes Published in the May-June 2011 issue of PJR Reports To be the first to know is not always a good thing, especially when people don’t want to hear what you know but you have to let them know it just the same. My work as a business reporter... PJR Reports May – June 2011 || IN THIS ISSUE || Out of the Media Box Covering Oil Price Hikes by Sonny Africa News Agenda Failure? Focus On a Wedding by Kathryn Roja G. Raymundo Media on Filipino “Mules” Some Breadth, But Little Depth by Martha A. Teodoro Does Self-Regulation have a Future in the... In-depth CHEERS to the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) for an in-depth report on the finances and the tax cases filed against ex-Presidential son, now Ang Galing Pinoy Representative Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo and his wife Angela Montenegro Arroyo. The PCIJ.org article “Rising fortunes, falling taxes,” reviewed the Arroyo... One source story JEERS to The Daily Tribune for a single-sourced report on the alleged plan of 2010 Liberal Party Vice Presidential candidate Manuel Roxas II to oust House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte once he officially assumes office as Malacañang Chief of Staff. The source was mentioned but not even named. The May... Puff piece Jeers to The Manila Times for its puff piece on Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista. The April 18 front-page article “Quezon City eyes premiere status” initially discussed the possibility of Quezon City’s regaining the country’s title as its capital. The report also mentioned local government plans for creating a... Biased Jeers to The Manila Times for a biased Easter Sunday special issue containing only the Church position on the Reproductive Health (RH) bill. “Today, Easter Sunday, we purposely offer this special report on the proposed Reproductive Health bill,” the paper’s editor in chief wrote in the paper’s April 24... Legitimizing plagiarism JEERS TO the Philippine Star’s Alfred Yuson for an argument that in effect legitimizes plagiarism, and which could give journalists, writers, and editors the mistaken impression that using portions of another person’s work one has edited makes the editor part author of it. In the sports blog “Fire Quinito”,... “Nobody home” at op-ed Jeers to Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist Amando Doronila for providing one more argument in favor of a right of reply law by reacting to a supposed letter to the editor which had not yet been published by his paper. Appearing on the paper’s front page last April 18, a... « Previous1…1314151617…21Next »
