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GMA-7 reporter wins for Palengskwela

A report on alternative schools inside public markets won for GMA-7 senior reporter Claire Delfin the 2010 Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO)-Australia Press Award. Delfin bested entries... Read more

Alleged gunman, 4 others charged for killing of Palawan broadcaster

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – THE ALLEGED gunman in the killing of a Palawan-based broadcaster faced inquest proceedings last 26 January 2011. (Palawan province is 592 kilometers south of Manila.) The Philippine... Read more

CMFR Philippine Press Freedom Report 2010 released

THE VICTORY of Benigno Simeon Aquino III in the 2010 presidential elections was widely expected to usher in a new era of governance. Aquino was also perceived as committed... Read more

Philippines down 34 places in Press Freedom Index

THE AMPATUAN massacre has put the Philippines in 156th place in the 2010 World Press Freedom Index of the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF, Reporters Without Borders), 34 places... Read more

Case against Mike Arroyo to continue

Now that the legal impediments have been resolved with finality, the 36 journalists and three media organizations that filed a P12.5 million class suit against the husband of President... Read more

Former president sues Manila broadsheet

CMFR/PHILIPPINES-Deposed president Joseph “Erap” Estrada filed on 17 September 2009 a libel complaint against a Manila-based broadsheet for a report on his alleged coercion of a businessman in 1998.... Read more

Appellate court denies presidential spouse’s bid to stop class suit

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Court of Appeals (CA) in Manila denied for “lack of merit” the motion for reconsideration presidential spouse Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo had filed to stop the... Read more

Journalists’ suit against president’s husband to proceed

CMFR/Philippines—The Court of Appeals has denied a motion by the husband of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to quash the case, filed against him by journalists in response to his... Read more

High Court upholds guilty verdict against columnist

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Supreme Court of the Philippines on 16 September 2008 affirmed the guilty verdict on a 1999 libel case filed by a customs official against a columnist,... Read more

Publisher jailed for libel, libel conviction of another affirmed

CMFR/Philippines—The publisher of a daily newspaper in Manila was arrested on 4 September 2008 for libel, while another newspaper publisher’s libel conviction was affirmed after a judge denied her... Read more