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Digging Up Dirt: Investigating Marawi’s Rehabilitation Plans

A YEAR after the Maute group laid siege to the Islamic city of Marawi in Lanao del Sur, and more than six months after the end of the fighting,... Read more

Calling Out the Failure to Respond to Chinese Bombers in the South China Sea

SILENCE CAN be louder than sound itself. On May 18, Chinese strategic bombers, including the top-of-the-line H-6K, had been reported to conduct take-off and landing exercises on Woody... Read more

Media’s Wider Lens: Reports on the Pain of Inflation

ADDRESSING PUBLIC concerns amid the continued rise of the price of most goods and commodities, the Department of Finance (DOF) reassured the public that it will be... Read more

Palace Much Ado About Nothing: Media Sets the Record Straight on Benham Rise

WHEN THE Palace tooted its tinny horn about President Duterte’s planned visit to the uncontested Benham Rise (also Philippine Rise), media’s reaction verged on the ho-hum, muttering amongst... Read more

In the Game: Late Newscast and Online News Explain What’s Behind the Abolition of the PCGG

THE LATE night newscast and online news platforms prove their worth when these are able to add context to the latest news content. Cheers to ABS-CBN 2’s Bandila... Read more

Pattern of Restrictions Signals Crackdown on PH Press

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) reported a “growing animosity towards journalists” encouraged by political leaders in its annual world press freedom index released on April 25.... Read more

Misleading headlines are bad for the press and public

JEERS TO GMA News Online for a misleading headline on a report that suggested that Rappler failed to show up at the Department of Justice (DOJ), as the report... Read more

Connecting Coverage of Economic Gains to the Poor

THE WORLD Bank and the Asian Development Bank expects the Philippines to sustain the 6.7 to 6.9 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth according to their 2018 economic updates.... Read more

Why fact check—and why Rappler and VERA Files

By Luis V. Teodoro THE DESIGNATION by the social media giant Facebook of Rappler and VERA Files as fact- checkers of its news feeds was in recognition of the... Read more

Approval Ratings: More than just Numbers

IN THE March 2018 SWS survey, the president retained his “very good” net satisfaction rating despite dipping two points from his December 2017 mark. Most news reports highlighted... Read more