US President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to speak to Americans not just through the traditional weekly radio address, but also via YouTube.
Category: Journalism
Human rights and free expression advocates across the world are raising a howl over the jail term of 20 years and six months against a Burmese blogger who reported about events in Burma which remains under the rule of a military junta.
Other journalists and activists were meted with jail sentences of up to 65 years!
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has condemned the Armed Forces of the Philippines in Western Mindanao over the latter’s new policy requiring journalists to submit their biodata for accreditation purposes.
Various media outlets have dubbed it as “profiling”.
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The Government Service Insurance System has filed a libel case against GSIS members under the banner of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) and several media outfits.
The Department of Justice has issued new rules on media coverage of children, especially victims of abuse or kids who have violated the law, according to an Inquirer report.
Various sectors are up in arms over a new policy laid down by PNP chief Jesus Verzosa regarding access to police blotters.
In an Oct. 20 memorandum, Verzosa banned media and public access to blotters unless allowed by the station commander or by a court order. The PNP claims the new policy is in consideration of requests made by victims of crimes.
What is this thing called “police blotter”?
US President Barack Obama won’t be meeting with Gloria Macapagal Arroyo when she visits the US yet again this month.
Obama is apparently treated Arroyo like a plague, starting with her most recent US visit, when Arroyo tried her best to score a PR coup through an audience with the highly popular Obama.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s frontpage today Nov. 5, which was put to bed hours before the close of voting in the US elections, is very interesting:
The British Broadcasting Company today features a live text of its coverage of the US presidential elections.
Americans have started voting in the most highly anticipated elections in recent memory, with the world following closely the developments on whether the next US president would be the first black US leader or the oldest to assume the post.
Scores of student-run newspapers in the US have made endorsements in the presidential election, with John McCain getting the nod of only one paper while rival Barack Obama got support from 69 publications.
Obama has also locked in more endorsements from mainstream newspapers.
I’ve been hooked big time to the US elections and in the epic campaign. For my daily dose of US political news, I go to a number of regularly-updated and highly sites.
The long US presidential campaign finally ends next week when Americans finally cast their votes on Nov. 4 to choose their next leader.
But will we all recover to this new addiction? Will we get rehabilitated soon enough from news, commentary and features about the race between a Democrat who would be the first black US president and the Republican who would be the oldest US leader?
The government-owned National Broadcasting Network has quietly launched a team blog.
Quezon City-based Collective Technologies Initiatives, or Collective Tech, offers non-profits, small and medium enterprises, learning institutions and other organizations the services needed to go, stay and better serve the public online.
The rise of new media and citizen journalism has emboldened some to talk about the demise of the traditional press as we know it.
The Inquirer’s banner story today should be a pleasant surprise to many: Oil plunges to $61/barrel.
Local oil prices are said to be based largely on world crude prices. Now that global prices have drastically gone down due to concerns of an economic recession, we have every reason to expect huge reductions in pump prices.
We can already imagine the headlines of tomorrow’s papers by this time.
A citizen journalist reported that Apple chief Steve Jobs was hospitalized — sending Apple stocks to take a deep dive. The report turned out to be false.
The US House of Representatives has given its stamp of approval to the bailout bill which the US government thinks will help stem the economic crisis that struck Wall Street, the very heart of world capitalism.
A reporter of ABS-CBN show The Correspondents is being shown tonight not just reporting on ‘pagpag’, the leftover food gathered by scavengers and re-cooked for consumption by some of our poor kababayans.