We will not surrender our freedomsToday, 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.Read More Covering the PandemicRead more Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic Hear ye, hear ye, Filipino journalists Interested in gaining practical journalism experience in the U.S.? The International Journalism Exchange is now accepting applications until June 1. The International Center for Journalists’ International Journalism Exchange will bring ten mid-career newspaper editors with at least five years’ experience from the developing world to the U.S. from October... Arrest of Ocampo triggers surge in party list elections coverage The filing of charges against Bayan Muna’s Congressman Saturnino “Satur” Ocampo, his arrest, the attempt to fly him to Leyte, and his detention at the Manila Police District headquarters triggered a surge in media coverage of the party-list elections during the period March 3–16, 2007. This was among the... Solon prevented from speaking to the media Members of the press were prevented from interviewing detained Bayan Muna (Nation First) Representative Satur Ocampo by his police custodians, who claimed that media interviews would be risky for Ocampo, Inquirer.net reported on 21 March 2007. Ocampo and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) have protested... CMFR Monitor of News Media Coverage of the 2007 National Elections First Report: TV, broadsheets covered TU most in first three weeks of campaign First Report (February 13 – March 2) The media advocacy group Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) has found that the six leading television news programs and the three largest Manila broadsheets covered the Arroyo administration’s Team Unity (TU) candidates most in the first three weeks of the... Radio station bombed An unidentified individual onboard a motorcycle bombed the service vehicle of dxCC (828kHz), a radio station of the Radio Mindanao Network (RMN), parked in front of the station in Cagayan de Oro city, Misamis Oriental, on 13 March 2007 at around 2:45 a.m. (local time). Cagayan de Oro is... Can the public rely on the press to make informed choices in this coming elections? Philippine Daily Inquirer reporter Tarra Quismundo attended the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility round table discussion on monitoring the news media coverage of elections earlier today, and here’s her report posted in the Inquirer‘s site. Media watchdog monitoring poll coverage Source: Inquirer.net Underlining the media’s role in helping... Radio station bombed An unidentified individual onboard a motorcycle bombed the service vehicle of dxCC (828kHz), a radio station of the Radio Mindanao Network (RMN), parked in front of the station in Cagayan de Oro city, Misamis Oriental, on 13 March 2007 at around 2:45 a.m. (local time). Cagayan de Oro is... 2007 Media and Elections: Media Monitoring The campaign season is officially on. Are we getting relevant information about the senatorial and party-list candidates from the press? Is the press helping us decide who to vote for on May 14? Or are we just getting more confusing and misleading information? Watch for the results of the... Another journalist shot dead in Mindanao The associate publisher of Lightning Courier, a news weekly in Mindanao, was shot dead by a lone gunman just outside his house in Sultan Kudarat, Shariff Kabunsuan, on the early morning of 19 February 2007. According to Sultan Kudarat police chief Ismael Mama, Hernan Pastolero was sitting in a... Manila-based newspaper charged with inciting to sedition The Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged the publisher and two columnists of Manila-based newspaper The Daily Tribune, a known critic of the Gloria Arroyo administration, with inciting to sedition for allegedly publishing articles that encourage the people to rise against the government. Article 139 of the Revised Penal... « Previous1…2021222324…36Next »
