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VERA Files misinformation tip line

VERA Files launched VERA the truthbot in the first ever public misinformation tip line on Viber in Asia Pacific. Read more

Correction please, Mr. President! — Media

CHEERS TO Philstar.com, Rappler, and VERA Files for fact-checking and providing context as they live-tweeted President Duterte’s last State... Read more

Leonen impeachment case: Attempt to reprise Sereno ouster fails

MORE THAN five months after its initial filing, the impeachment case against Supreme Court Associate Justice Marvic Leonen collapsed in total failure last May 27. By a unanimous and... Read more

CNN recalls Duterte speeches, confirms agreement allowing China to fish in WPS

CHEERS TO CNN Philippines for recalling Duterte’s 2019 pronouncements contradicting Malacanang’s current denial that the president had entered into an agreement with Chinese president Xi Jinping allowing Chinese... Read more

JVOJS 2020: Philstar.com’s Camille Diola receives CMFR Award of Distinction; ABS-CBN’S Christian Esguerra named Marshall McLuhan Fellow

DUE TO the pandemic, CMFR held the Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Seminar online on Friday, October 9, 2020. The program featured a panel of six journalists chosen on the... Read more

Media an echo chamber for official chorus on Duterte’s health

IT WAS netizens rather than the media who pieced together seemingly unrelated events that led to rumors about President Rodrigo Duterte’s whereabouts and his health. Online speculation was triggered... Read more

“Fake news” provision threatens freedom of the press, expression

JOINT STATEMENT We, media organizations, advocates of freedom of the press and of expression, journalists and academics, raise the alarm over the insertion of measures to control free expression... Read more

Continuing nCoV coverage: News organizations made a difference

FILIPINO WATCHED with alarm as China grappled with the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus acute respiratory disease (nCoV-ARD). With overseas Filipino workers in China and elsewhere, and the... Read more

The Manila Times Editor Asked to Resign After Criticizing Ouster Plot Story

THE MANILA Times Managing Editor Felipe Salvosa II resigned over the newspaper’s story on the alleged plot by media organizations and a lawyers’ group to oust President Rodrigo Duterte. Read more

Sentiment and Science Against Labelling Children as Criminals

THE BROUHAHA over the lowering of the age of criminality — to nine, then twelve — reflected both science and sentiment about the issue which media picked up quickly... Read more