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MediaTimes Facebook Twitter Google RSS Publisher’s Note 2023 Team Unity on the verge of break up PH Human Rights Situation 2023: More of the same Bloody comeback: Violence intensified in barangay, youth polls 2023 Media attention wanes as pandemic ends Passed in 2023, MIF seems grounded for now Inflation Beyond Duterte’s peace and discipline”: Media’s proactive review of of education woes Climate change and the challenge to government and media PUBLISHER’S NOTE 2023: Looking back at darkness The killing of Jerhode Jemboy” Baltazar on August 2, 2023 should not be so easily forgotten. He was seventeen when he died. His death should not be regarded as a just another case study of crime in our cities. It is an episode, yes, a tragedy in the news that could fade away without so much as leaving an imprint on the public mind. Filipinos must take note of the shadow it has cast on our lives, even if we did not know him. Its collective remembrance might help us understand the evil that has increasingly shrouded our society, the abuse of state power, and its persistent attack against citizens these agencies are supposed to protect. Read More 2023 in Media Climate change and the challenge to government and media 2023 in Media Beyond Duterte’s peace and discipline”: Media’s proactive review of of education woes 2023 in Media Inflation 2023 in Media Passed in 2023, MIF seems grounded for now 2023 in Media Media attention wanes as pandemic ends 2023 in Media PH Human Rights Situation 2023: More of the same 2023 in Media Bloody comeback: Violence intensified in barangay, youth polls 2023 Team Unity on the verge of break up As the country prepared for the 2022 presidential elections, Senator Imee Marcos described in August 2021 the possible team up of her brother Ferdinand Marcos Jr. with Sara Duterte as a marriage made in heaven.” These words expressed the conventional wisdom of bringing together two dynasties from the north and the south. Rodrigo Duterte’s popularity still ran high, and both Marcos and Duterte as political names enjoyed recall. There was an even greater driving force, as a network of influencers and content creators pushed false narratives, historical revision, and fables about the Marcos family’s desire to share their wealth in gold. It was a two-fold victory: Marcos restored his family’s name to power and Duterte continued her family’s hold in the political arena. But no marriage can stand up to political self-interest. Policy divisions showed up fissures which, despite claims that all was well, broke up the team in 2023. Read More The hope that I lost in The Hague BUT YOU have a free press, right?” is a question I’d never thought I would have to answer from an important source in The Hague, the legal capital of the world and the seat of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that is investigating, for the first time, the Philippines for alleged crimes against humanity under the leadership of strongman Rodrigo Duterte. I could not say, in good conscience, that we do not have a democracy… Read More Journalism’s Jackpot: Why an active bet on local news is worth placing THE RIGORS of climbing the scholastic ladder at one of the Philippines’ Big Four” universities can’t keep Jeremaiah Opiniano, a journalist with a Ph.D., from playing the lottery. Despite the slim odds of one in 29 million to win the ₱100-million ($2 million) jackpot, he already has plans for the money: to build a local news company… Read More When the loss is ours WHAT MADE me realize how much has changed in the media industry was gloomy advice for graduation students in the early 80s which I picked up in a news article. In the story, a well-respected columnist warned the would-be graduates of the limited number of available jobs in the bleeding newspaper industry. Schools are pumping out so many journalism graduates every year, she said, but major dailies just can’t open up more positions… Read More De Lima’s Detention: A Cautionary Tale of How Laws Were Weaponized and How Media Could’ve Covered It Better The initial allegation against former Senator Leila de Lima came from the then-president himself, Rodrigo Duterte: She facilitated the illegal drug trade at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP). She was on the take. She could not have allowed those things to happen…for nothing? You must be kidding,” he told reporters in August 2016 at a visit to a wake of a police officer slain during a drug operation. Read More The annual digital microsite which contains the findings of the Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility’s (CMFR) journalism review on media and press performance. 2022 2021 2020 MEDIA TIMES 2023 PUBLISHER Melinda Quintos De Jesus EDITORIAL STAFF Jeraldine Pascual Leah Perez Andie Canivel Glenn Ferrariz II EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Lara De Jesus Facebook Twitter Google RSS Center for Media Freedom & Responsibilities | Media...