Did Cebu Media botch reporting on 'lumad' students in Cebu campus?
How live-streamed and print coverage reported the story At a glance: CMFR: ‘egregious error’ Social media: reporting took police line hook, line and all Reporters:…
How the Press Stands
CCPC statement on the Maguindanao Massacre court ruling
The 2009 Maguindanao massacre was known not only as “an unprecedented case of election-related violence.” It was also billed as “an exceptionally brutal attack on the press.”…
Let’s not accept disinformation in media as normal
10 things journalists and audiences can do By Jason A. Baguia [From his talk “Rebuilding a Civilization of Truth” at the 2019 Cebu Press Freedo Week…
Expanded Sotto Law to benefit more media practitioners
The amendment to the Sotto Law, also known as Press Freedom Law, expanding the protection to journalists, has finally been approved. The law now covers…
STATEMENT
Cebu Citizens-Press Council Saturday, July 27, 2019 Senator Sotto’s bill doesn’t define ‘false content’ and grants arbitrary power of virtual censorship to government bureaucrats. The…
Media Self-regulation through Media Literacy: Insights from the Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC)
Abstract How does the press regulate itself? Through document research, key informant interviews, and participant observation, the researcher studied how the Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC)…
CCPC cautions public in assessing “media plot”
“A matrix presented by public officials could lead to something more than a verbal attack from those criticized. In the campaign on illegal drugs, many…
Under-coverage of local governments: public officials’ gripes, media’s explanation
Mayors, mostly of LGUs outside Metro Cebu, complain that their projects and programs have not been publicized by mainstream media. “They send out reporters…
Public officials miss media when they trumpet success. They’re glad reporters are not around when scandal breaks.
While some mayors lament media “under-coverage” of towns and cities in far-flung areas, which afflicts even urban centers in Metro Cebu that are outside Cebu…
Congress seeks to fix venue of libel to place where community journalist lives, works
Bills now pending in Congress narrow the venue of the filing of libel cases to the place where the journalist lives or works, or where…