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Advocates launch online petition to pass FOI bill

Members of the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition (R2KRN) launched an online signature campaign addressed to the Aquino administration to pass the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill. The... Read more

CMFR STATEMENT: Philippine Day of Mourning

WORLD PRESS Freedom Day has for many years been an occasion for mourning rather than celebration in the Philippines, where, since 1986, 140 journalists and media workers have been... Read more

Out of context

By Luis V. Teodoro PROVIDING CONTEXT is not a strong suit of the dominant media,* whether in the form of a few paragraphs recalling the background of events, ... Read more

Journalism’s not about the journalist

By Luis. V. Teodoro WHATEVER THE medium — whether print, broadcast or online — journalism is about the news, not about the journalist. What’s most relevant to readers, viewers and... Read more

Problem solving journalism

THE FIRST blog for 2014 may be a good time to suggest once again that we need to change the way we do journalism. This is not the first... Read more

Four dead, other media workers without shelter and supplies after super typhoon

CMFR/Philippines – The radio and TV stations in Tacloban City were destroyed by Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), and at least four media workers are dead, while some are missing and... Read more

Into the breach

By Luis V. Teodoro The martial law period haunts us still. Its ghosts are not only threatening Leyte’s Tacloban City in the form of the demand of both the local... Read more

Police officer tagged in radio broadcaster’s killing

CMFR/Philippines – The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has named the suspects in the 29 August 2013 killing of a radio broadcaster in Iligan City. In its report... Read more

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Sandra Burton Nieman Fellowship for 2014 now accepting applications

The Sandra Burton Nieman Fellowship for Filipino Journalists is inviting applications for the year 2014. Nieman Fellows are expected to do academic work at Harvard University, USA for two... Read more

The killing of journalists and the culture of violence and impunity

MOSTLY UNREMARKED in these times of corruption and other scandals is the continuing killing of journalists. Eighteen have been killed for their work in the three years of... Read more