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• Editor’s note: Situation Normal

  SINCE 1986 journalists have been killed in this country with such regularity that the killings came dangerously close to being regarded as normal. Indeed, until the number of killings... Read more

• Editor’s Note: Remembering

  I KNOW I am speaking of an unfamiliar time when I begin to talk about martial law with my journalism students. I am met by blank stares and polite—if... Read more

• Editor’s Note: Beyond entertainment

  YEARS AGO, on the cusp of an inexplicably successful career in show business, Kris Aquino was said to have told her mother, former President Corazon C. Aquino, “Mom, I... Read more

• Editor’s Note: Joy in Journalism

  IN THE crush of dismal and discouraging developments in the press, one is prone to overlook an important thing about journalism: it can be fun. Specifically, there is a... Read more

• Editor’s Note: Some surprises

  WHEN FR. Ed Panlilio decided to take a leave from the priesthood to run in Pampanga’s gubernatorial elections, Filipinos knew something was afoot.  It was vaguely reminiscent of the... Read more

• Editor’s Note: Counting and remembering

  IF RIZAL Yuyitung were alive today, what would he say about the death threats, the libel suits and the murders that seem to have become par for the course... Read more

• Editor’s Note: Elections and acts of terror

  ELECTIONS HAVE always turned the spotlight on politicians, particularly the candidates. What they do—and what they don’t do—is the stuff that journalists write about. This issue of the PJR... Read more

• Editor’s Note: In front of the cameras—and behind

  IN THE film “Broadcast News,” the character of Albert Brooks strives mightily to understand why he could not be a television news anchor. His sympathetic rival—the then young and... Read more

• Editor’s Note: Now you see them, now you don’t

  EXCEPT FOR the occasional typhoon and other disasters, when was the last time you saw a story on health, the environment, or education on the front page of your... Read more

• Editor’s Note: Rough Spots

  In a television talk show a few nights ago, lawyer Harry Roque swore he would never work with journalists again. When the talk show host asked why, the usually... Read more

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