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Re-elected governor confronts journalist (UPDATED)

CMFR/Philippines - The governor-elect of the province of Cotabato barged into a radio station in Kidapawan City last 21 May 2013 and confronted a journalist about election-related reports published... Read more

Social media poser threatens online news site

An online news site in Subic received threatening messages from a person posing as a member of the police’s Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team last 21 May 2013. Read more

More on 2013 Elections

I think we have done it again, making bad out of something good. Automated elections were hailed the first time around, as the speed with which winners were proclaimed made... Read more

Photojournalists, cameramen barred from covering hospital fire

CMFR/Philippines – A hospital official in Davao City ordered his staff to prevent TV cameramen and photojournalists from covering a fire last 22 May 2013. Read more

Facebook Face-off

IT’S BEGINNING to look like a stretch, but assuming the integrity of the May 2013 mid-term exercise—meaning the votes cast were accurately counted by the Comelec’s problematic PCOS machines... Read more

Facebook Face-off

IT’S BEGINNING to look like a stretch, but assuming the integrity of the May 2013 mid-term exercise—meaning the votes cast were accurately counted by the Comelec’s problematic PCOS machines... Read more

Automation 2013: A Post-Mortem

I went early on May 13 to cast my vote. The precinct was in much better state than what we found in 2010. It seemed as though the different... Read more

Appeal to take necessary actions against a Zamboanga del Norte police officer (UPDATED)

The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) wrote the Department of Interior and Local Government to to take necessary actions against a police director involved in unjustly arresting... Read more

AM Radio News Media Coverage of the 2013 Senatorial and Party-list Elections: Radio was focused on personalities and controversies (March 19-April 12)

During the period monitored, a number of non-election issues edged out reporting on the elections. When radio did report the elections, coverage was hardly different from that of previous... Read more

Covering or seeking cover?: The curious cases of blocktimers in Negros Occidental

It is election season, when politics, the news media, and entertainment are thrown into one merry, colorful, noisy, and moneyed mix. It is also the time when some broadcasters and... Read more