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Media boost false claims on “500k” crowd at UniTeam rally

JEERS TO the media organizations that parroted without checking the grossly exaggerated number of people who supposedly attended the Marcos-Duterte campaign event on March 13. Some online news accounts... Read more

Ukraine crisis dominates front pages; Online media fact-check and highlight issues

METHODOLOGY: CMFR reviewed the coverage of leading Manila broadsheets (Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star, and Manila Bulletin), three other selected broadsheets (The Daily Tribune, The Manila Times, and... Read more

Multi-sourcing needed: Media’s treatment of killings should go beyond military sources

JEERS TO several print media organizations for taking the word of the military about the death of a volunteer teacher and four others in the province of Davao de... Read more

Print coverage underwhelming, outdone by online media in-depth reports

AS THE public moves away from newspapers, there is so far scant evidence of any effort on the part of print publications to retain their loyal readers. Those surveyed... Read more

Media highlight candidates’ campaign sorties

AMID THE COVID-19 pandemic, the campaign period for the May 9 elections started last February 8. The official candidate list of Commission on Elections (Comelec) include: 10 presidential bets;... Read more

This Week in Media (January 10 to 14, 2022)

ADDING TO the grim start of 2022, the second week of the year saw the steady rise in COVID-19 cases, breaching the three million mark within less than two... Read more

Report on Comelec hacking flawed — but flags Election 2022 digital vulnerabilities

JEERS TO the Manila Bulletin for its breaking news report on the alleged hacking of Comelec’s servers, which it claimed to have verified. But the report did not detail... Read more

Funding problems take backseat in coverage of PH Olympic performance

FILIPINO ATHLETES lifted the spirits of the whole nation as they brought home one gold, two silvers and one bronze from the Tokyo Olympics 2020, larger than the medal... Read more

Reporting IPCC findings: Online media sound the alarm on climate change in the PH

for highlighting the alarm sounded by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and for reporting the precise significance of its findings for the Philippines. Read more

Covering Taal: Media more responsible than the President

CHEERS TO the media for their swift and science-based reporting on the eruption of Taal Volcano last July 1, without hype or sensationalism. Cheers as well for critically countering... Read more