Mindanao Archives

Inquirer reporter Julie Alipala, 58

JULIE ALIPALA, who reported on Mindanao for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, passed away on April 3, 2025, after a brave battle with endometrial cancer. She was 58. Read more

GMA-7 report calls attention to El Niño’s impact in Mindanao

CHEERS TO GMA Integrated News Weather Center for a report that checked on the situation of Mindanao agriculture, providing information that identified it as the region that will bear... Read more

‘Peace is a process’: Int’l peace prize for MindaNews’ Arguillas

JOURNALIST AND journalism educator Carolyn O. Arguillas has been awarded this year’s Luxembourg Peace Prize. A fellow of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility’s Jaime V. Ongpin (JVO)... Read more

MindaNews calls out low priority given to Mindanao peace agenda

CHEERS TO MindaNews for calling attention to the Bangsamoro peace process in Mindanao, an urgent issue that the Marcos Jr. administration has made no attempt to address. A report... Read more

Patricio P. Diaz, 93

VETERAN JOURNALIST, author and Mindanao chronicler Patricio P. Diaz died on August 29 due to a heart attack. He was 93. In his early days, Diaz wrote for the... Read more

Bomb Attack Underscores the Failure of Martial Law in Mindanao

MARTIAL LAW has been in effect in Mindanao since May 2017. And yet the region has continued to suffer from bomb attacks. So far, there have been at least... Read more

BOL in the News: Coverage Stuck on the Event, a Matter of Procedure (Updated)

ON THE evening of July 18, the bicameral conference committee approved the reconciled version of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) after addressing the different contentious provisions of House Bill... Read more

Marawi Crisis: Beyond the Fighting

IT WAS a crisis the military said was under control since Day One. Two months later, the fighting continues, 500 lives lost, and around 300,000 displaced from their... Read more

Hits and Misses: Coverage of the SC Decision on Factual Sufficiency of Proclamation No. 216

THE DECISION has been described as a landmark and a milestone in Philippine judicial history. And media reporting on it failed to rise to the challenge of reporting... Read more

Martial Law in Mindanao: The Press Steps Up

MARTIAL LAW is something the Philippine press takes very seriously. The journalists and media agencies that survived its ravages from the ‘70s to the ‘80s take pride... Read more