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Unnecessary depiction of violence

JEERS TO media reports of 24 Oras, State of the Nation with Jessica Soho (SONA), CNNPhilippines.com and Rappler for the use of unfiltered videos in their coverage of the... Read more

Media on the much delayed rebuilding of Marawi

TWO YEARS after the liberation of Marawi, government announced the rehabilitation of the ruined city without apologies for its long and unexplained delay. Media headlines announced the start of... Read more

Citing violation of due process, Pasig court remands Rappler securities case to prosecutor

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Citing violation of the right of the accused to due process, a Pasig court has ordered the reinvestigation of a criminal case against executives of online news... Read more

Rappler wins award for drug war series

RAPPLER RECEIVED the 2019 Global Shining Light Award for its investigative series on President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war on September 28 at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Hamburg,... Read more

Media on the return of polio: Missing the “why” and “how” of it

AFTER NEARLY two decades, the dreaded disease, poliomyelitis or polio, is back in the Philippines. On September 19, the Department of Health (DOH) reported the re-emergence of polio with... Read more

The BuCor controversy: Media must broaden the discourse

HOW DO you solve a problem like the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor)? The BuCor and the jail system it manages have been in dire need of solutions to longstanding... Read more

Adding red-baiting to the perils of truth-telling

CMFR / PHILIPPINES – To the many perils of truth-telling in the Philippines, where 165 journalists have been killed for their work since 1986, and hundreds more threatened, physically... Read more

Flagging security concerns about Dito-AFP deal

DITO TELECOMMUNITY Corporation, formerly known as Mislatel, signed on September 11 a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) which allows the company to... Read more

Not newsworthy: Duterte’s slur against Rappler journalists

THREE YEARS into his term, President Rodrigo Duterte’s tirades against his critics and the independent press have become predictable and pointless. They don’t contribute to public understanding of the... Read more

The traffic problem: Can media help?

HOW WILL the government solve Metro Manila’s worsening traffic problem? The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is running out of ideas. And it seems all media can do is... Read more