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Three typhoons in a row: Too much for government and for media
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: November 24, 2020 | Filed under: Journalism Review
IN A period of three weeks, three destructive typhoonshit the country like a chain of bad luck. Typhoon Quinta made landfall in Quezon in late October and swept through...
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Closing down ABS-CBN
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: May 7, 2020 | Filed under: Editorial
IN THE midst of the tension and fear over the pandemic and requisite community quarantine, the government has forced a major media company off the air, literally closing it...
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Muddling through aid distribution mess
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: May 5, 2020 | Filed under: Covering CoViD-19, Journalism Review
THE EXTENDED community quarantine (ECQ) has pushed more Filipinos deeper into poverty. The government’s aid has been slow to trickle down and at the rate that things are going,...
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EDITORIAL: Crisis in government communication calls for media to step up
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: April 29, 2020 | Filed under: Covering CoViD-19, Editorial
COMMUNICATION IS vital to democratic governance in normal times. But it is even more essential during and in the aftermath of disasters, political, social and economic crises, and such...
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The importance of information in time of pandemic
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: April 15, 2020 | Filed under: Covering CoViD-19, Journalism Review
CMFR CHEERS Cielito Habito for deftly detecting a failure in the government approach to fight COVID-19. From the start of the crisis, none of the public officials seemed inclined...
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News that keeps up with science
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: February 4, 2020 | Filed under: Journalism Review
JOURNALISTS HAVE demonstrated improved capacity in reporting tropical cyclones and its dangers. Some 20 typhoons a year gives the press a lot of practice. With the eruption of Taal,...
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The challenge of Taal Volcano
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: January 21, 2020 | Filed under: Journalism Review, Media Ethics and Responsibility
TAAL VOLCANO’s eruption on Sunday, January 12, tested the capacity of the media to cover a completely different kind of disaster. Many of those who were called out to...
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Mindanao quakes: Largely episodic
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: November 22, 2019 | Filed under: Journalism Review, Media Ethics and Responsibility
STILL REELING from the two destructive quakes in Tulunan, Cotabato last month, Mindanao was once again jolted by a magnitude 5.9 tremor, this time in Kadingilan, Bukidnon, on Monday,...
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Missing in action or in photo-op
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: November 7, 2019 | Filed under: Journalism Review, Media Ethics and Responsibility
Absent in Mindanao DESTRUCTIVE QUAKES shook Mindanao during the last week of October but the survivors in the affected areas did not see hide or hair of President Rodrigo...
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Remembering Ondoy: Lessons learned, more to do
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: October 4, 2019 | Filed under: Journalism Review, Media Ethics and Responsibility
CHEERS TO media organizations that produced special reports on the commemoration of the tenth year of Typhoon Ondoy, which dumped a whole month’s rainfall in just six hours on...
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