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:…
Media Issues
Missing in initial media report: the back story on closed Lumad schools
At a glance: Live-streamed coverage gave no background on the conflict in Mindanao that led to the ‘Bakwit School’ in Cebu. Accusations against the program…
Where some news reporting failed, how it could’ve been done better: 7 takeaways on criticisms of media performance
It is a multi-faceted and continuing story, with many chances of disclosing, explaining, and correcting in other news cycles. The uproar must tell us that…
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…
Fake News: View of a non-journalist
By Rev. Fr. Ramon D. Echica [Based on his talk at the Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC) media forum during Cebu Press Freedom Week 2019,…
Cebu journalists exposed to China media, culture in group visits
It is new only because the invitation comes from China through “private organizations.” For decades a similar grant, but for trips to the United States,…
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…
‘TRANS’ JOURNOS
Their work has shifted from newsroom to public information office; from reporter to publicist; from being watchdog of public officials to protector of the officials’…
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…