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Covering the Pandemic

Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic

The Silent Media

Native Advertising: Not just a Problem of One

Cebu papers cover less prominent candidates

Cebu Print Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections Fourth Monitoring Period (March 28-April 10 2010) CEBU’S ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DAILIES Weeks 7 and 8 covering March 28-April 10, 2010 saw a slight decrease in the number of election-related reports from 388 in Weeks 5 and 6 to 353 reports about the...

It’s Back to the Local Elections for Cebu’s English-language Dailies; Cebu’s Bisaya-language Dailies focused on Local Elections in Middle Weeks of the Campaign

It’s Back to the Local Elections for Cebu’s English-language Dailies Cebu Print Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections Third Monitoring Period (March 14-27 2010) The number of election-related news reports continued to increase as the May 10, 2010 elections drew near. From 335 (22%) reports in Weeks 3 and...

A problematic exercise: Election uncertainties dominate news themes in print

The CMFR Monitor of Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections Discourse Analysis: Print (For the period February 28 -March 13, 2010) Scope For the print media coverage of the fourth and fifth week of the 2010 elections, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) monitored the front pages...

Media battlefield shrinks as candidates near 120 minute airtime limit

THE CMFR MONITOR OF MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE 2010 ELECTIONS POLITICAL ADS IN BROADCASTING AND PRINT (For the Period February 28-March 13) A month after the start of the official campaign period for the 2010 national elections, several groups including civil society and the media were monitoring and publicizing...

Cebu's English-language dailies shifted coverage from local to presidential elections

Cebu Print Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections Second Monitoring Period (February 28-March 13, 2010) Weeks 3 and 4 (February 28-March 13) of the monitoring period showed an increase in the percentage of election-related reports in Cebu’s English-language dailies from 19 percent to 22 percent (335 election-related reports to...

CMFR Monitor of the News Media Coverage of the 2010 National and Local Elections (Feb. 10-27): Aquino was the most covered presidential candidate in print

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS PRINT (FEB 10-27, 2010) AQUINO WAS THE MOST COVERED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Print focused on the presidential campaign to the neglect of the senatorial and party list elections The Liberal Party’s Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Cojuangco Aquino III was the most covered candidate in the country’s three biggest newspapers...

CMFR Monitor of Political Advertisements (February 9-27): The most moneyed candidates were also the most covered by television

In 2004, relatively-unknown trade secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas ran for senator. Spending 73% of his campaign finances on advertisements, Mr. Palengke, as his advertisements tagged him, made it to the Senate with the most votes. After two attempts, unknown and holding no position in the government , Ma. Ana...

CMFR Monitor of Coverage of the 2010 Elections: Cebu's Bisaya Dailies (Feb. 10-27)

CEBU’S BISAYA DAILIES (Feb.10-27) For 2010, CMFR is monitoring the coverage of the national elections, but has also entered into a partnership with the Cebu Citizens Press Council to include a monitor of the Cebu press’s coverage of both the national and local elections. The Cebu newspapers monitored (Banat,...