Anthony Chua
The year 2008 is about to end. It has been one that many would want to leave behind and forget. Day after day, countries have been announcing that they are in a recession. Even the mighty United States and Japan, the two largest economies, became powerless victims of the global crisis that was expected [...]
Turn crises into opportunities
Iloilo reporter manhandled inside police station
A reporter of GMA 7 in Iloilo City was manhandled inside a police
station Sunday morning by one of the parties involved in a traffic
accident she had been covering in Jaro District.
Charlene Belvis, 24, suffered scratches and bruises after she was
attacked by Andrea Gorriceta around 3:55 a.m.
Gorriceta was caught on tape slapping the reporter’s head while [...]
AN UPDATE ON THE KILLING OF JOURNALISTS AND OTHER ATTACKS ON PRESS FREEDOM
Press freedom in the Philippines remains in peril, as the unabated
killing of journalists and other attacks against the press continue.
On Dec. 9 (Tuesday), the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ)
will provide a comprehensive update on these killings and other
attacks, including the state of the case against the killers of
Sultan Kudarat journalist Marlene Esperat, who wrote [...]
Tango before Cha-cha
Anthony Chua
The Filipinos have seen two “people power” revolution that ousted two of our notorious presidents towards international disgrace. The first was in 1986 when dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos crumbled as the influential who’s who in the business, civil, political, religious, and other sectors mingled with the common and lowly “masa” in swathing Epifanio [...]
Balancing news or limiting press freedom?
In coordination with
Media 203 (Media Ethics) Class, UP College of Mass Communication
INVITATION
RIGHT OF REPLY:
Balancing news
or limiting press freedom?
A discussion on the Right of Reply Bill
and its implication on Press Freedom
In commemoration of the 60th anniversary
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
December 8, 2008
9:00 am – 12:00 nn
College of Mass Communication Auditorium
University of the Philippines [...]
