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Media on the Quakes: Missing the Science of It
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: May 6, 2019 | Filed under: Journalism Review
ON APRIL 22, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Luzon, its epicenter in Castillejos, Zambales, resulting in 18 fatalities and PHP505 million worth of infrastructure damage. The following...
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Metro Water Woes: Key Questions Unanswered
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: March 27, 2019 | Filed under: Journalism Review, Media Ethics and Responsibility
THE WATER service interruption in the concession areas of Manila Water in East Metro Manila and Rizal has remained, causing untold inconvenience, even critical conditions, for households, hospitals, businesses...
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An Attack on One is an Attack on All
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: February 14, 2019 | Filed under: Press Freedom Protection, Statements
THE CENTER for Media Freedom and Responsibility condemns the arrest of Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa on cyber libel charges filed several years after the alleged offense...
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Press Releases in the Guise of News
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: December 19, 2018 | Filed under: Journalism Review
JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Manila Standard for publishing single-sourced stories on the House of Representatives’ supposed completion of President Rodrigo Duterte’s legislative agenda. Both reports come...
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Following up on Ompong’s Destruction
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: October 3, 2018 | Filed under: Journalism Review
POST-TYPHOON ‘OMPONG,’ the media scrambled to cover the provinces hit hardest by the disaster, reporting on casualties, damage to infrastructure and agriculture, as well as rescue and relief...
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A Closer Examination: Why the Deaths in Itogon?
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: | Filed under: Journalism Review
CHEERS TO Rappler for its two-part story examining the Itogon community’s vulnerability and for exposing the weak law enforcement which were among the factors that led to the many...
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“Ompong” Coverage: OK But Could Have Been Better
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: September 25, 2018 | Filed under: Journalism Review
TYPHOON OMPONG (Mangkhut) was the 15th and so far the strongest typhoon to smash into the Philippines this year, and even as it approached had invited comparisons with...
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Underreported in the Media: a Three-Alarm Fire in Megamall
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: July 7, 2018 | Filed under: Journalism Review, Media Ethics and Responsibility
FIRE HIT a construction site beside SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City on Thursday, June 28, 2018, past 7:30 p.m., calling to the site numerous fire engines which further aggravated...
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Marawi, Moving Forward: Notes from the Forum, Media on Marawi Organized by the Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility (CMFR)
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: May 31, 2018 | Filed under: For the Record
VIOLENCE TORE at the heart of Marawi City, the historic capital of Lanao del Sur as fighting broke out on May 23, 2017. It seemed to most residents a...
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Boracay Shutdown: Where is the Master Plan?
Posted by: CMFR Staff | Posted on: April 15, 2018 | Filed under: Journalism Review
IS THE government ready to do the job in Boracay? If President Rodrigo Duterte’s words are any indication, then it is not. He himself said during a press...