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  • Lorenzo Natali Media Prize

      Sharing the announcement from the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize Secretariat: The European Commission has announced the launch of the 2017 Lorenzo Natali Media Prize, which recognises outstanding reporting on development and poverty... Read more

  • The lowest common denominator at work

    On FB, I found an unlikely posting on the revelations tracking the mauling of a lunchtime show host. It came from an expert-academic friend whose account usually engages his... Read more

  • Image-making or information?

    AMONG PUBLIC officials as well as those other individuals whose jobs and functions in society put them in the public eye, how they are perceived by others, as dictated... Read more

  • Mixed blessing

    THE PHILIPPINE blogging community is divided over whether to draft and/or adopt a code of ethical conduct that would govern online expression. As early as the onset of this... Read more

  • Papal Bull

    THE RESIGNATION of Joseph Ratzinger as Pope has been in Philippine news media—in TV, radio, and print—from the time he first announced his intention to resign the Papacy... Read more

  • The Spratlys dispute: Questions, Questions

    The ongoing dispute between the Philippines and China in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) was in the news these past few months. But the coverage of the... Read more

  • Unsafe

    CHEERS TO various news organizations for providing background reports on the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) instead of the usual day-to-day coverage of the revived issue. Pending a... Read more

  • Print monitors

    Clash over “crash” CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for raising a media concern when the U.S. financial crisis hit the front pages: should journalists call it a crash... Read more

  • Print Monitor

    Floored by flour THE MANILA Times failed to clear the air insofar as lingering fears about products imported from China are concerned. The Times reported the complaints of the... Read more

  • Print Monitor

    Who’s afraid of Amalia Fuentes? THE PHILIPPINE Star yielded front-page space to a showbiz news story that stood out for its lack of balance and crassness. Last July 20,... Read more