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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 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.

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?

Election day coverage: Automation, at last!

Published on May-June 2010 issue of PJR Reports. Filipinos awaited the first automated elections in the country with understandable doubt and uncertainty, if not widespread and genuine fear. It had taken four years of heated legislative battle to establish the basis in law for automation (Election Modernization Act or...

Revisiting the Party-List System (and What the Media Missed)

Published on May-June Issue of the PJR Reports By John Reiner M. Antiquerra and Rupert Francis D. Mangilit An April 2010 report from Pulse Asia said that nearly half of the Filipino electorate would be going to the polling precincts unaware of the party-list system. But the media still...

Sidebar | Media Technology on Election Day 2010: Showdown or Showtime?

Published on May-June 2010 issue of PJR Reports Technological tools were on full show on election day, adding more to talk about than just the election itself. Sure, the display of high-tech gizmos captured audience attention. But did they really help provide more information to help the public understand...

Tabloids focused on presidential race, covered Villar most

Tabloid coverage of the national elections Fourth Monitoring Period (March 28 to April 10, 2010) Like the broadsheets, selected major tabloids focused overwhelmingly on the major presidential candidates to the virtual exclusion of lesser-known candidates. From March 28 to April 10, a monitor of three tabloids also showed scant...

Radio Coverage of the 2010 National Elections

CMFR Monitor of the Media Coverage of the 2010 National and Local Elections (April 12-16 and April 19-23, 2010) There are striking differences in the elections coverage of radio when compared to other media. While the elections occupied a substantial amount of airtime and space in television, print and...

TV news covered Presidential election most; party list, senatorial campaign least

The CMFR Monitor of Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections Broadcast Discourse Analysis (For the period April 12-16 and 19-23, 2010) From April 12 to 16 and 19 to 23, almost five out of ten reports by TV Patrol World (ABS-CBN 2) were about the elections. In the case...

TV Patrol World, 24 Oras covered Aquino most in final two weeks of presidential campaign

The CMFR Monitor of Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections Broadcast Discourse Analysis (For the period April 26-30 and May 3-7, 2010) Introduction During the last two weeks of the campaign period, most of the news reports on TV Patrol World (ABS-CBN), 24 Oras (GMA) and Teledyaryo (NBN) focused...