Archive for October, 2005

MEMBERS of the Black & White Movement are putting their heads together at this very minute, trying to reach a consensus on the best post-GMA option to push for.  The 300 or so participants at today's assembly taking place at the Ateneo High...

ABOUT 50 journalists from the print, broadcast and the online media gathered today at Linden Suites to swap their stories on blogging and discuss where blogging would take journalism. Blogging is challenging the way mainstream media cover news events...

THE PCIJ is releasing for publication tomorrow a report on the cheating in Lanao del Sur in 2004. The report, done jointly with the TV program, "Probe," was based on the testimonies of two political operators who said they were funded by First Gentleman...

PLEASE come to the launching of the PCIJ's latest book, "Hello, Garci? Hello, Ma'am: Political Humor in the Cellphone Age." The launch, which will also serve as an occasion to reintroduce to readers the reformatted i Report, the Center's...

October 19, 2005 · Posted in: General, Media, Science and Technology

Journalists as bloggers

THE PCIJ conference on Journalists as Bloggers this coming Saturday, October 22, 2005, will be held at Function Rooms 1 and 2 of The Linden Suites located at 37 San Miguel Avenue, Ortigas Center in Pasig City. With support from The Asia...

CORRUPTION in the Philippines has worsened, according to the global corruption watchdog Transparency International in its 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).  An email sent out by Dr Johann Graff Lambsdorff, Chair of Economic Theory of the...

FINDING it "barely comprehensible" and "bereft of merit," the Supreme Court has dismissed outright a petition for injunction that sought to cause the PCIJ to remove from this blog the audio files and transcripts of the "Hello Garci" tapes. "Free...