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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

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...

Cebu's Bisaya-language Dailies' Coverage of the 2010 Elections (Sixth Monitoring Period)

(April 25-May 10, 2010) CEBU’S BISAYA-LANGUAGE DAILIES The last two weeks leading to election day showed a peak in the election coverage of the Bisaya-language dailies of Cebu with 290 election-related reports or 54 percent of the news hole, from 48 percent in the fifth monitoring period. SuperBalita had...

Cebu's English-language Dailies' Coverage of the 2010 Elections (Fifth Monitoring Period)

(April 11-24, 2010) CEBU’S ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DAILIES As elections neared, the number of election-related reports significantly increased from 353 in the fourth monitoring period (March 28-April 10) to 588 in the fifth monitoring period (April 11-24). Proportionally, the percentage of election-related reports vis-à-vis the news hole also increased from 30%...

Cebu's Bisaya-language Dailies' Coverage of the 2010 Elections (Fifth Monitoring Period)

(April 11-24, 2010) CEBU’S BISAYA-LANGUAGE DAILIES The proportion of election-related reports to the news hole of the two Bisaya language dailies monitored, Banat and SuperBalita, jumped from 29 percent during the fourth monitoring period to 48 percent in the fifth monitoring period of April 11-24, 2010. Banat allotted more...

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...

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,...

A problematic exercise: Election uncertainties dominate news themes

Published in the March-April 2010 issue of PJR Reports. In a major indication of how problematic the 2010 elections are regarded by both the press and the public, the uncertainties surrounding the exercise dominated the major themes of reporting in the fourth and fifth week (Feb. 28- March 13)...

Cebu's Bisaya-language dailies keep focus on local elections

Cebu Print Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections Fourth Monitoring Period (March 28-April 10, 2010) A month before the May 10, 2010 elections, there was a slight increase in the percentage of election-related reports from 28% in the third monitoring period to 29% in the fourth monitoring period. Both...