Messenger silenced
It was the eve of the 2013 Cebu Press Freedom Week and The Freeman junior reporter Jessa Agua had just won the Miss Press Freedom…
Media Issues
Broadcasters: Journalists or propagandists?
There’s this opening scene in a movie where a young farmer chops wood while listening to a radio commentary exposing the town mayor’s abuses, swinging…
Moving to mobile
Battle on as traditional media loses ground to new media In 40 minutes, the phone said, leave for Ayala Center Cebu to make it in…
Hearing on libel case turned messy for Bañoc, other broadcasters
Last April 28, 2000, what would’ve been a simple clarificatory hearing on a libel complaint, filed by Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) against Bombo Radyo before…
Elections show right of reply doesn’t have to be legislated
PACHICO A. SEARES. Columnist, founding editor of three dailies, chairman of Cebu Media Legal Aid There are two ways of looking at the legislated right…
Politics and Cebu media
Politicians use media for their messages to the public: information needed for them to push their program of governance and propaganda to defend themselves against…
Why I see a longer lease on print life
We’ve heard and read about it during the past few years: Newspapers, along with magazines and books, have been sideswiped by high-tech gadgets such as…
Cebu media 10 years from now
Ten years ago, going to one’s beat assignment every day to gather news stories and submitting them to the editors before the 8 p.m. deadline…
Press behind bars: Journalists remember martial law
To generations used to the marketplace exchange of information in this digital age, martial law represents the country’s excursion into the alien and bizarre. Information…
Is there no freedom of the press against media owners, managers?
In a local paper, a columnist was suspended for more than a month by its owners who, the columnist said, were requested by a politician-relative…
