Archive for June, 2011

MALAYSIA'S Center for Independent Journalism (CIJ) has expressed concern over a decision by the Kelantan state government to bar the newspaper Utusan Malaysia from state assembly proceedings and all official functions involving Nik Abdul Aziz, the Menteri...

CAROLYN O. Arguillas, a Fellow of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and the editor of the Mindanao news cooperative MindaNews, was awarded on Thursday the Marshall McLuhan Prize for excellence in journalism. Arguillas is a...

PRESS freedom advocates across Southeast Asian have assailed a decision by an Indonesian court that found an inflight airline magazine guilty of defamation for referring to a convicted murderer as just that - "a convicted murderer." ABC Radio Australia...

What follows is a statement from GMA Network, Inc. (Channel 7)  in response to a query from the PCIJ about the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas' proposal to craft a Broadcast Code that will bind all radio and television agencies in the country....

This is a report about us, the media. A joint undertaking of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), it tackles the decision of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas...

A Filipino broadcaster of a government-run radio station plans to file charges against the governor of Kalinga province for allegedly attacking and threatening to kill him. Kalinga is approximately 317 kilometers north of Manila. Broadcaster Jerome...

A global coalition of civil society organizations from twenty countries recently launched a campaign to press government and other aid donors to exercise more transparency when they give out aid. The Make Aid Transparent campaign was launched in...