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Covering ‘Lando’: Lessons learned

GOVERNMENT RESPONSE to Typhoon Lando (International name: Koppu) demonstrated the improved level of disaster preparedness in the country. Government support has made possible more accurate forecasting by the Philippine... Read more

Premature conclusion, editorializing

JEERS TO some media organizations for prematurely concluding that it was New People’s Army guerillas who killed a town mayor in Agusan del Sur and his son, and for... Read more

Media focus on celebrities and trivia in reporting the filing of COCs

THE FILING of certificates of candidacy (COC) on October 12 to 16 signaled the start of the election year.Presumably serious political aspirants flocked to the national and local offices... Read more

Media off to a good start as pols announce candidacies

CHEERS TO CNN Philippines and Rappler.com for their efforts at providing background information on the vice presidential aspirants in the 2016 national elections as the period for the filing... Read more

The LP twerking scandal: Beyond the lewd and obvious

OTHER MEDIA organizations were quick to pick up the story when news broke about a group called Playgirls performing what many thought was a lewd show during the birthday... Read more

Reporting on the Lumad schools

MOST OF the reports by the media on the Lumad issue focused on the violence in their communities, militarization, and the alleged radicalization of the Lumad by the New... Read more

‘Same old, same old’ in local races

CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and the Manila Bulletin for running a story on local candidates in the coming elections. Read more

The cost of war in Mindanao

CHEERS TO Rappler.com for taking a closer look at the history and cost of war in Mindanao from the administration of Ferdinand Marcos to that of Benigno Aquino III. Read more

Media took their accustomed paths in Poe citizenship coverage

SENATOR AND presidential candidate Grace Poe’s citizenship has been under scrutiny for more than a month since 2013 senatorial candidate Rizalito David filed a disqualification case against her before... Read more

Red-tagging a Lumad school

JEERS TO Manila Bulletin’s Tempo for accusing in its headline a Lumad school of being run by the New People’s Army (NPA). Read more