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Media’s bad news

A FREEDOM of Information (FOI) bill, this time drafted by the Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition, was filed through indirect initiative before the House of Representatives last July... Read more

Our dream, our rightPass the People’s FOI Act now!

Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition statement. Read more

Rocky road

IN WHAT could be an attempt to preempt a Supreme Court decision on the unconstitutionality of the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 (RA 10175), the Department of Justice (DOJ)... Read more

Coalitions wanted

Non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, have been recognized in the laws of many states as expressions of the right to association, but have also come about because of the political... Read more

Libel – a Sword of Damocles

HERE ARE more excerpts from of the Q&A’s I’ve been having with students doing papers and theses on the news practice: Q. How do you think libel is abused in... Read more

Challenge to the dominant press

THE PHILIPPINES has a long alternative press tradition that goes back to the reform and revolutionary movements of the late 19th century—from Marcelo H. Del Pilar’s Diariong Tagalog, to... Read more

FOI and FOE in the campaign agenda

Access to government-held information is the necessary condition for transparency in governance, and for empowering the citizenry to hold its elected officials to account. It is equally crucial... Read more

FOI and FOE in the campaign agenda

Both the right to information and freedom of expression should be in the agenda of press and public discourse in the 2013 elections, and should help transform an otherwise... Read more

Arroyo redux?

IN 2010 the election to the Presidency of Benigno S. Aquino III seemed to herald, if not the coming of a free expression regime, at least the promise... Read more

FOI for the Filipino people

It does not look like the Fifteenth Congress will be able to claim the honor of finally giving the Filipino people their Freedom of Information (FOI) law. Putting together reports... Read more