Journalism Review Archives | Page 130 of 174

Reporting the Scarborough disputeContext, context, context

ON THE news front burner since April, the Panatag Shoal territorial dispute between the Philippines and China escalated on April 10 in a tense naval confrontation between the two... Read more

Stereotyping Muslims

JEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for a front page photo caption that stereotyped Muslims, and Muslim women particularly, last May 9. Read more

Wasted airtime

Jeers to 24 Oras for failing to provide background and context to a report on Joseph Estrada’s birthday party and future political plans. Read more

Biased reports

Jeers to The Daily Tribune for two biased reports. Read more

Focus on indigenous peoples

Cheers to Saksi deviating from the usual Manila-centric type of reporting to bring public attention to a case of ancient burial theft and the state of an endangered language... Read more

Headlining Trivia (on Prezi)

Headlining trivia

Jeers to the Philippine Daily Inquirer for making a brawl between public figures its May 7 lead story at the expense of other issues. Read more

DNA as evidence

Cheers to Vera Files for a two-part investigative report on the plight of rape victims in the country. The March 5 investigative report “Systemic silencing: Little incentive to cry... Read more

Preparing for the elections

Cheers to the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) for its timely focus on next year’s elections, which are only a little more than a year away. ANC started looking into... Read more

How is the press faring in its Corona impeachment trial coverage?

It has been seven days since the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona started. Since Jan. 16, CMFR has been asking online media users their thoughts on the press... Read more