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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

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.

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...

Online Coverage of 2010 Elections: Citizen journalists at work

Reflecting the changing media landscape, the online medium has evolved into a distinct and powerful source of news and information for the 2010 elections. More and more Filipinos are following and even participating in the online coverage of the elections as social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter...

Improving coverage by the public/current affairs programs

The Philippine media covered election-related events and personalities aggressively during the campaign season. News media organizations such as ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. (ABS-CBN 2 and ABS-CBN News Channel) and GMA Network Inc. (GMA-7 and sister-station QTV 11) pooled together their resources in partnership with other groups to provide what was...

Going the extra mile: Will media efforts pay off?

Published in the March-April 2010 issue of the PJR Reports by Hector Bryant L. Macale Although there is still room for improvement, the press has clearly shown a determined emphasis to cover this year’s elections. In the past few months, these efforts can be seen in the in-depth stories,...