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Alleged gunman in the 2006 murder of Palawan radioman acquitted

CMFR/PHILIPPINES –A court in Palawan acquitted a former police officer accused of killing a broadcaster in 2006. The decision was promulgated 11 April 2011. In a decision dated 8... Read more

Justice delayed

Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) on the 15th month since the Ampatuan Massacre of November 23, 2009 THE TRIAL of those formally accused in... Read more

Warning to Media

by Ruby Shaira Panela Published in the January – February 2011 issue of PJR Reports Media, media advocacy and journalists’ organizations must keep a close watch on what the country’s... Read more

CMFR releases Report on News Media Coverage of 2010 Campaign and Elections

The Philippine press registered a number of improvements in its coverage of the 2010 campaign and elections. The leading media organizations broadened their coverage of independent candidates and small... Read more

“Special” mention

Cheers to the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism for looking into the lack of proper attention to special children mired in poverty. The last in a three-part series on... 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

Action Requested

Almost a month has passed since Vietnamese authorities arrested a press freedom advocate for allegedly distributing “anti-state propaganda” at his home in Ho Chi Minh City on June 13.... Read more

Incoherent

Cheers and Jeers to GMA-7’s Case Unclosed June 4 episode, “Danyos”, which looked into how the government has failed to indemnify the victims of human rights violations during the... Read more

Drug trade trends

CHEERS TO GMA News Research for an informative report on current trends in the Philippine drug trade. The Feb. 12 report found that illegal drug laboratories in the past... Read more

Free press, access to info contribute to the ASEAN vision–ASEAN Sec-Gen Surin

Below is a release from the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) on the speech of Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, Secretary-General of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), during... Read more