ONE JOURNALIST put it succinctly following the death of the Interior Secretary: the late Jesse Robredo was already a champion of Freedom of Information long before it became known as FOI. That's because Robredo was well known for instituting...

TWENTY-NINE YEARS after one hero was struck down by an assassin's bullet, the nation remembers and honors yet another great man. On Tuesday, authorities announced the recovery of the body of Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo....

CITIZENS, CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS, AND STUDENTS joined media groups in the 1,000th day commemoration of the Maguindanao Massacre today, August 19, at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani in Quezon City. The program started past four in the afternoon under...

A THOUSAND DAYS AGO, 58 people were brought to a a remote area of Sitio Masalay, Barangay Salman, in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao. There, on the side of a hill, they were executed in one of the worst cases of election violence in the country, and the...

MEDIA AND CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS will mark the 1,000th day since  the Maguindanao Massacre with an overnight vigil beginning Sunday, August 19, 2012 at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani located at EDSA corner Quezon Avenue. The massacre, which took...

COMMUNICATIONS SECRETARY Ricky Carandang has posted a statement on the Official Gazette website of the Philippine government in reaction to the recent blog post that the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism has acknowledged to be in...

ADVOCATES of the long-delayed Freedom of Information (FOI) bill have asked House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte to intervene and get the measure moving once again through the legislative mill. In a letter sent to Belmonte's office, members of the Right to...