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ABS-CBN News Bares Layers of Onion Crisis

CHEERS TO ABS-CBN News for looking into the multiple issues behind the drastic increase in onion prices in the Philippine market. NXT, ABS-CBN News’ digital arm, produced an explainer... Read more

7.6 growth rate in 2022: Print trumpets superlative claims, TV and online news provide more realistic assessment

SEVEN MANILA-based broadsheets featured it as banner story on January 27, echoing the superlative terms used by government to describe the 7.6 percent growth of the country’s economy in... Read more

A Step Towards Justice: Media Report “Drug War” Victim’s Corrected Cause of Death Certificate

CHEERS TO reports which called attention to the need for truth and accuracy in the documentation of deaths involved in Rodrigo Duterte’s “drug war.” Going back to the falsification... Read more

TV Patrol focuses on Marawi’s bakwits and still pending reparations

CHEERS TO TV Patrol for revisiting the 2017 Marawi siege, highlighting the situation of the displaced communities or “bakwits” in the city. There are families who are still homeless... Read more

This Week in Media (October 17 to 21, 2022)

ON OCTOBER 3, radio broadcaster Percy Lapid was gunned down in Las Piñas City. Lapid is the second journalist to be killed under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s watch, his... Read more

Special Treatment or Considerate Handling: PDEA Double Standard Observed in Remulla Son’s Case

THE MEDIA reported the arrest last October 11 of a certain Juanito Jose Diaz Remulla III, who turned to be the son of Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla.... Read more

Two journalists receive online threats

CMFR/Philippines — TV5 broadcasters Ed Lingao and Lourd de Veyra received death threats online on 4 October 2022, a day after the murder of broadcaster Percy Lapid in Las... Read more

This Week in Media (October 3 to 7, 2022)

LESS THAN a week after his return from New York, amid continuing recovery efforts for the victims of Super Typhoon Karding, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. flew to Singapore on... Read more

More than lines on a map: Re the Maguindanao split

THE PEOPLE of Maguindanao have spoken. The plebiscite on September 17 confirmed the split of the province into two -- Maguindanao del Norte and Maguindanao del Sur. Read more

This Week in Media (August 22 to 26, 2022)

AFTER TWO years of a national school lockdown, schools opened with face to face classes on Monday, August 22. Vice President and Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Sara Duterte... Read more