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Chinese military ships harass vessel with journo in Philippine waters

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — A Filipino civilian vessel with ABS-CBN reporter Chiara Zambrano on board was harassed by Chinese coast guard and two missile attack ships just 90 nautical miles from... Read more

Lack of context in government testing policy

THE PUBLIC clamor for mass testing began as early as March 2020 when the World Health Organization (WHO) advised all countries to “test, test, test” in order to curb... Read more

Media on the questionable arrests of the ‘Human Rights Day 7’

ON DECEMBER 10—Human Rights Day no less—the PNP arrested a journalist and six activists on charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives as part of what critics denounced... Read more

JVOJS 2020: Philstar.com’s Camille Diola receives CMFR Award of Distinction; ABS-CBN’S Christian Esguerra named Marshall McLuhan Fellow

DUE TO the pandemic, CMFR held the Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar online on Friday, October 9, 2020. The program featured a panel of six journalists chosen on the... Read more

September 21: Then and Now

MANY WHO lived through the years of Martial Law, proclaimed by then Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972, are gripped by a sense of déjà vu. The... Read more

Criminalizing criticism: More hardships for suffering public

THE INHUMANE treatment of people violating quarantine protocols has exposed the Philippine National Police (PNP) as an agency without heart. (See monitor: “Editorials assail abuses during lockdown”) The administration... Read more

ABS-CBN signs off: Politicians dominate coverage, public interest sidelined

IN THE hands of members of the House of Representatives of Congress, franchise power has been captured by political forces. Without Congressional action on its renewal, the 25-year franchise... Read more

Government anti-communist task force posts propaganda against ABS-CBN, Rappler’s Maria Ressa

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), the government’s anti-communist task force, published social media posts on 9 May 2020 denying that the... Read more

Closing down ABS-CBN

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... Read more

ABS-CBN goes off air following NTC’s cease and desist order

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — The country’s biggest broadcast network, ABS-CBN, ceased its radio and television operations nationwide on 5 May 2020, in compliance with an order from the National Telecommunications Commission... Read more