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Part 1: The fate of print…

I think I’m reconciled to the idea that I belong in the last generation of writers and readers on paper. Indeed, what I see is no mere generational gap,... Read more

Part 1: The fate of print…

A whole new culture, nay, a whole new world is risen, and it’s a world that has no use for paper. Read more

News correspondent forced out of board meeting

THE VICE mayor of a Misamis Oriental town barred a reporter from taking footage of a public meeting last 28 January 2013. Misamis Oriental is a province approximately 800... Read more

Philippine press freedom ranking falls again

CMFR/Philippines – The Philippine ranking in the 2013 World Press Freedom Index fell to 147 from 140 last year. The World Press Freedom Index is an annual report of... Read more

RH Act not covered as Health and Women’s Issue

FROM NOVEMBER to December of last year, Republic Act 10354 (or the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 which was signed into law last Dec. 21) was... Read more

Propaganda or public information?The blocktiming landscape in Pampanga

IN JULY 2012, Pampanga First District Representative Carmelo "Tarzan" Lazatin surprised his town mates when he turned his back from his known ally and friend Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan and... Read more

JOURNALISTS AND media advocacy groups have for years been urging a stop to the Philippine National Police and other government investigating bodies’ long-standing practice of presenting crime suspects to... Read more

Media Damnation (updated)

THE PHILIPPINE news media have a problem: how to make what’s turning into one of the most boring elections in Philippine history interesting as well as meaningful to a... Read more

Media Damnation (Updated)

The Philippine news media have a problem: how to make what’s turning into one of the most boring elections in Philippine history interesting as well as meaningful to a... Read more

Free TV, the tabloids and elections

THE PHILIPPINE media have often been accused of bias in the coverage of elections. But inadequacy rather than partiality has been their more telling flaw. Read more