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The president’s love life

QUESTIONS ABOUT the news trade, as practiced both universally and in this country, are put to me quite often—usually by email and by students and now and then by... Read more

Snipers from cyberspace (Updated)

THE DEBATE on how to deal with cyber-crime has given rise to comparisons between unseen and unnamed news-media sources and subjects on the one hand and arbitrary and untraceable... Read more

Media’s coverage of ArroyoReporting trivia

IN REPORTING the release of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from hospital arrest after the Pasay City Regional Trial Court (RTC) ruled favorably on her bail petition, the media’s... Read more

Martial Law in Philippine cyberspace

Today, the resistance to the Cybercrime Prevention Act gains ground with the "Petition for Certiorari, Prohibition, and Injunction..." filed by media groups with the Supreme Court. The Center for... Read more

Mixed blessing, or mixed curse?“Blocktiming” in Bacolod City

BACOLOD CITY – It is one of those “open secrets” in Philippine broadcasting. Politicians would buy chunks of radio time and populate the programs with broadcasters who would, like regular... Read more

Redefining journalism

IT HAS not occurred to me to look at certain changes in my trade as closely as I do now. It’s probably because the changes have been made arbitrarily... Read more

Why we need an FOI Act

IN 2008, I wrote about PCIJ’s experience in accessing documents on projects funded with official development assistance. I was just in my second month on the job at the... Read more

Anomaly’s child

MUCH OF the post-2010 expectations of the press and media community critical of the Arroyo administration’s antagonism to free expression and press freedom have not been realized during the... Read more

Looking Back: 40 years since the declaration of Martial Law

WHAT WERE the lessons learned by the Philippine press as a result of Martial Law, or did it learn anything at all? As we commemorate the 40th year since... Read more

Sanctioning media

The sensitive subject of sanctions against the media has been raised with me through questions that, not unlike in a school exam, calls for straight answers. The questions have... Read more