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Palace draft of freedom of info bill: Focus on restrictions?

A scan of the initial draft of the Aquino administration’s Freedom of Information (FOI) bill reveals a focus on restricting rather than enhancing the right to information. The administration... Read more

No place for apathy

It was in 2003 when I first covered a fact-finding mission on human rights violations (HRVs). I was months into what was then the newly established progressive media venture,... Read more

Freedom of Information Policy Forum

The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility with a grant from the National Endowment for Democracy invites you to a policy forum on the Freedom of Information. Read more

Does Self-Regulation have a Future in the Philippines?

THE MEDIA are not only failing to regulate themselves; more importantly, some media organizations are actually depending on the government to intervene, in effect eroding the very principle of... Read more

News Agenda Failure?Focus On a Wedding

THE COVERAGE of the British royal wedding showed how the Philippine press evaluates which events are newsworthy. Of the conventional news values, human interest and prominence usually take precedence... Read more

Supreme Court allows live coverage of Ampatuan massacre trial

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Philippine Supreme Court has partially granted the request of media and private complainants to allow live coverage of the trial of 196 persons including members of... Read more

Another media practitioner killed, third in a week

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A Mindanao-based publisher and editorial consultant was gunned down a few meters from his karaoke shop last 19 June 2010. It was the third killing in a... Read more

The Maguindanao Massacre: LEGAL UPDATE as of January 7, 2010

Two cases arose out of the November 23, 2009 Maguindanao Massacre in which fifty-seven (57) bodies were recovered from the hills of Barangay Salman, Ampatuan, Maguindanao. These cases are... Read more