2013 Elections Archives

We will not surrender our freedoms

Today, 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.

Covering the Pandemic

Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic

The Silent Media

Native Advertising: Not just a Problem of One

AM Radio News Media Coverage of the 2013 Senatorial and Party-list Elections: Radio was focused on personalities and controversies (March 19-April 12)

During the period monitored, a number of non-election issues edged out reporting on the elections. When radio did report the elections, coverage was hardly different from that of previous years, with many election-related reports focusing on controversies facing candidates that were personal in nature and which had nothing to...

More of the Usual (Part 2)

The four television news programs focused on the prominent senatorial candidates. The coverage of the party-list group also remained lacking in substance. The public affairs programs and election specials presented analyses and additional information that news programs did not provide.

More of the Usual (Part 1)

The number of election-related reports in the three papers monitored during the period decreased as other issues took precedence in the daily coverage. Online sites, meantime, provide additional information about the elections and the candidates.

Reporting Political Dynasties

OF THE political dynasties in the country, the Ampatuan clan is among the most controversial because of its alleged involvement in the Ampatuan Massacre of November 23, 2009 in which 58 people including 32 journalists were killed.

Covering or seeking cover?: The curious cases of blocktimers in Negros Occidental

It is election season, when politics, the news media, and entertainment are thrown into one merry, colorful, noisy, and moneyed mix. It is also the time when some broadcasters and journalists become candidates, running for various elective positions and becoming members of traditional political parties. It is the time as...

First Report: TV, Broadsheets Covered Most Well Known Candidates for Senator in First Two Weeks of the Campaign (Feb. 12-24, 2013)

Will we see more of the same news media coverage this year that has characterized every election campaign?

STORIFY: Should TV networks allow candidates to guest in their entertainment programs? Why or why not?

How often have we seen political candidates, especially during an election campaign, appear as guests in television entertainment programs or whose lives are featured in drama anthologies? In its latest Question of the Week (Feb. 18-24, 2013), the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) asked its social media...

Some lessons and reminders: How the press covered the 2010 campaign and elections

Given the particularities of the May 2010 elections, media coverage of the election campaign itself needed, and promised to be, many things: it needed to be thorough as well as pro-active, and focused on the issues but rigorously aware of the context—the larger picture—in which the campaign would proceed....

The CMFR Monitor of the News Media Coverage of the 2010 Campaign and Elections:Conclusions and Recommendations

The official election campaign starts today. How can the media raise the level of discourse in this year's campaign?