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War on Drugs: Mapping, Charting the Killings

CHEERS TO ABS-CBNNews.com for providing a map and charts on the death toll in the Duterte administration’s war on drugs. On July 13, the news website of ABS-CBN... Read more

Reviewing Party-list Performance

CHEERS TO ABS-CBNnews.com and ABS-CBN 2’s TV Patrol for its effort to evaluate the performance of the 2013 elected party-list representatives in the 16th Congress. On February 12, ABS-CBNNews.com published Gigi... Read more

Election Ad Spending: Reporting Partial Nielsen Figures

JEERS TO several media organizations for reporting incomplete and unverified figures on advertising expenses in 2015 of the presidential, vice presidential and senatorial candidates running in this year’s elections.... Read more

Abu Sayyaf in MNLF Meeting: A Fellow Journalist as Source

JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for failing to verify information on a meeting allegedly called last week by Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chairman Nur Misuari in Indanan,... Read more

Providing facts, challenging mistaken notions: Media and the commemoration of Martial Law

THERE CAN never be enough stories on martial law. Filipinos failed to form a Truth Commission as the South Africans did to establish consensus about the Apartheid. We have... Read more

Newsroom oversight?

JEERS TO ABS-CBNnews.com for a false report on the reaction of University of the Philippines in Los Baños (UPLB) students to Vice President Jejomar Binay’s September 15, 2015 ... Read more

Front page ‘love affair’

JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for prioritizing a dating scandal over pressing issues. Read more

Insensitive, inhumane

JEERS TO ABS-CBN 2 for its insensitive coverage of the plight of former child actor Jiro Manio who was found roaming the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3... Read more

DAP didn’t do it

CHEERS to ABS-CBN 2's TV Patrol and ABS-CBNNews.com for examining the impact of several programs funded through the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) on the Philippine economy. Read more

Reporting Aquino’s fifth SONA

THE PRESIDENT of the Philippines appears before a joint session of Congress and speaks to the public every year to report on the state of the nation. By tradition,... Read more