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From the Newsrooms: Persistent problems in barangay elections; Rodrigo Duterte faces criminal complaint

AS THE first Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataang elections in five years, the October 30 vote provoked more than perfunctory interest from media. The Supreme Court ruled last June that... Read more

Degamo coverage: A case for reform of the election law

MEDIA HAVE not ceased in their coverage to follow up on the assassination of Roel Degamo, governor of Negros Oriental, with eight others killed and 17 injured. Accounts quoted... Read more

Timely electoral news long before 2025 midterm vote

WITH ELECTIONS some three years in the future, two events call media and voters to think on the exercise, its problems and its perils. Read more

MEDIA AND ELECTIONS 2022

THE MEDIA community in the country and in many parts of the world have not engaged much in the collective exercise of questioning how journalists do their work, or... Read more

Election Day 2022: Media focus on machine malfunctions; Analysts revisit campaign conduct in commentaries

FILIPINOS VOTED May 9 in the most consequential election since 1986 when “people power” overthrew the Marcos dictatorship. COVID-19 cast a shadow on the prospects of the event being... Read more

This Week in Media (May 2 to 6, 2022)

THE NEWS media have shifted their focus from the campaign sorties to the preparations for the May 9 elections. Reporters on TV, print and online were not remiss in... Read more

This Week in Media (April 25 to 29, 2022)

More political heat as election nears; Disasters, government inefficiency torment ordinary folk Read more

TV coverage still on the same track; some gave space to voter education as Lacson and Moreno join forces to ask Robredo to withdraw

FOR TEN straight weeks of the campaign period, television coverage did little more than highlight what was said and done during campaign sorties. This period included efforts to devote... Read more

Print keeps Marcos Jr. on their front pages; online media spotlight issues on the ground

LESS THAN a month before election day, controversies and changes in candidate endorsements and in survey findings underscored developments in the presidential race, and kept it in print and... Read more

This Week in Media (April 18 to 22, 2022)

More political heat as election nears; Disasters, government inefficiency torment ordinary folk Read more