UP CMC’s assessment of the media under Macapagal-Arroyo regime
Under Siege and Fighting Back An Assessment of the State of the Philippine Media University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) led by Dean Roland B. Tolentino, 24 faculty...
View ArticleJournalists deserve freedom after speech
N.B. – This was published in the December 7, 2009 issue of JoongAng Daily, an English newspaper based in Seoul, where the Philippine Resource Persons Group (PhilRPG) has a weekly column (Pinoy Voices)....
View ArticleProposed Freedom of Information Act and media repression
N.B. – This was published in Asian Correspondent (December 14, 5:00 a.m.) where I write a weekly column (Philippine Fantasy). Concerned journalists and other groups are expected to go to the Senate...
View ArticleCampus journalists as `torch bearers’
N.B. – This was published in Asian Correspondent (April 12, 10:55 p.m.) where I write a weekly column (Philippine Fantasy). As an educator and practicing journalist, I often get interviewed by students...
View ArticleProposed Freedom of Information Act and the potentials for its misuse and abuse
A Thailand-based journalist emailed three questions on the proposed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). As you may already know, the latter was not ratified by the House of Representatives (HOR) when it...
View ArticleAmpatuan massacre and the journalists’ bias
N.B. – This was published in The Lobbyist (November 23) where I write a column (Subtext). Many times we hear the argument for cold neutrality. For a journalist to be effective, he or she should not...
View ArticleA call for a ‘media-friendly’ freedom of information act
N.B. – This was published in The Lobbyist (August 2) where I write a column (Subtext). Unless the Aquino administration adopts the “Bayan Muna version,” I cannot find any reason to support current...
View ArticleReviewing the Campus Journalism Act of 1991
N.B. – This is my keynote speech for the National Conference on Campus Journalism and 6th Writing Competition on January 17, 2013 at the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP)-Tagaytay. I was...
View ArticlePCOO should rescind media accreditation
N.B. – The full text of this statement may also be retrieved from the websites of the Philippine Press Institute (PPI) and the Photojournalists’ Center of the Philippines (PCP). This post contains an...
View ArticleNTF ELCAC, Parlade accountable for red-baiting UP CMC student org
N.B. – This is the official statement of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) as regards the Red-baiting of a student organization by the NTF ELCAC and Lt. Gen....
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