FOI executive order: Can it overcome secrecy, corruption?
IN THE Philippines’ long-running effort to get a freedom of information (FOI) law passed, President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to move on the matter without Congress…
Media Issues
How Mindanao journalists see Duterte: Gallardo
FROILAN GALLARDO, veteran reporter and photographer based in Cagayan de Oro City who now works with MindaNews, thinks Davao media didn’t give Rodrigo Duterte as…
How Mindanao journalists see Duterte: Estremera
STELLA ESTREMERA, editor-in-chief of Sun.Star Davao, tells how they understood Rodrigo Duterte in his messages to constituents, says journalists need to look beyond what he…
What does President Duterte really mean?
It’s the job of reporters, editors and opinion makers to understand what the news source says. And that work has been made doubly hard by…
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…
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…
