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Beyond “peace and discipline”: Media highlight concerns over Sara as DepEd chief amidst education crisis

CHEERS TO media for highlighting the grave concerns over the appointment of Sara Duterte, presumptive vice president-elect, as the head of the Department of Education (DepEd). Read more

First encounter: Marcos Spox turns deaf to Rappler reporter

BARELY TWO days after the presumptive win of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., his spokesperson, Atty. Vic Rodriguez, held a press conference at the Uniteam headquarters in Mandaluyong, during which he... Read more

Print keeps Marcos Jr. on their front pages; online media spotlight issues on the ground

LESS THAN a month before election day, controversies and changes in candidate endorsements and in survey findings underscored developments in the presidential race, and kept it in print and... Read more

Rappler journalist shoved during Uniteam rally

TWO OF Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr.’s campaign staffers prevented Rappler reporter Lian Buan from interviewing Marcos Jr. at a campaign rally. Read more

Politics in full swing: As elections draw near, endorsements and controversies dominate local campaign news

METHODOLOGY: From March 21 to April 3, 2022, CMFR reviewed the coverage of leading Manila broadsheets (Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star, and Manila Bulletin), three other selected broadsheets... Read more

Marcos deficiencies: Covering the Marcoses’ unpaid estate tax

NEWS ABOUT the Marcos family’s unpaid estate tax has sparked public discussion, highlighting the need for well-informed sources and historical context in media coverage. Read more

Past, Present, and Future: Media mark Women’s Month

THE COVID-19 pandemic, the May elections, and the conflict in Ukraine and its economic after-shocks could have made it difficult for media to highlight women’s issues during Women’s Month,... Read more

Fuel Crisis takes over front pages; print and online media report unverified campaign claims

The red-tagging story was also picked up by The Philippine Star, Manila Standard, and Manila Times in their front pages. Star and Standard cited an ‘intelligence report’ and Duterte’s... Read more

Vote-buying: Media flag Election Code violations

SOME CANDIDATES ave reportedly been engaging in questionable practices to boost their chances of winning in the 2022 elections. Journalists have recorded allegations of vote-buying in various areas, enough... Read more

Media boost false claims on “500k” crowd at UniTeam rally

JEERS TO the media organizations that parroted without checking the grossly exaggerated number of people who supposedly attended the Marcos-Duterte campaign event on March 13. Some online news accounts... Read more