Media, Democracy, Development
Two-year project supported by the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Philippines office and implemented by the Center for Community Journalism and Development (CCJD) in partnership with the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), and Newsbreak Magazine. MORE DETAILS

Strengthening Community Media Capacity to Address: Trafficking in Persons
The project, Strengthening Community Media Capacity and Multi-Sector Strategies to Address Trafficking in Persons, aims to strengthen the capability of community journalists—the print and broadcast media in small towns and cities where the most vulnerable segments of the population are located—to expose and report on trafficking in persons. MORE DETAILS

Disaster Risk Reduction: Project for Filipino Journalists
Recent natural events in the Philippines demonstrate only too well the vulnerability of many local communities. MORE DETAILS

Human Rights: Sustaining Media Engagement for Good Governance through Public Journalism
Several media groups, newspapers, radio stations, and individual practitioners in several areas around the Philippines have initiated public journalism projects that somehow demonstrated that the community media can help refocus and add sinew to popularizing good governance initiatives at the local level without necessarily losing their cherished traditions of autonomy and independence. MORE DETAILS

Public Journalism Certificate Course
The Certificate Course in Public Journalism is a Fellowship offered by the (name of academic institutions) in partnership with the Center for Community Journalism and Development (CCJD). MORE DETAILS

Public Journalism Training Program
Series of training workshops customized for journalists working in a rural setting around the Philippines. MORE DETAILS

Corruption-Proofing the MDGs: Public Journalism Initiatives in Philippine Communities
Social infrastructure obstacles in substantially improving people’s lives.  Poverty, especially in the rural areas, is very much pronounced despite government attempts to improve access to basic services.  In many instances these attempts have been exceedingly slow in getting to the more remote regions to address the needs of vulnerable groups like indigenous peoples whose struggle for accessing land rights remains a challenge. READ MORE

SunStar Cebu's Seares Is 2008 Gawad Plaridel Recipient

The University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP CMC) will give the 2008 U.P. Gawad Plaridel to Atty. Pachico "Cheking" Seares. Named after Marcelo H. del Pilar (nom de plume, Plaridel) whose progressive ideals fueled the reformist newspaper La Solidaridad in the 1890s, the award recognizes the achievements of an outstanding practitioner from print, radio, film, television, or the new media. READ MORE

Human Rights Story Published in UNDEF-Supported Magazine Wins Journalism Award

“Trapped in a Web of Lives,” an in-depth and searing look into the disappearance of activist Jonas Burgos, was named best investigative report for 2007 in the Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism 26 June 2008 in Manila. READ MORE


Philippine TV Network Asks INSI for Hostage Crisis Briefing in Wake of Sulu Kidnapping

QUEZON CITY --- It pays to be aware of the inherent risks journalists face while on dangerous assignments and journalists need to observe safety protocols set by newsrooms. READ MORE

INSI Welcomes Release of TV Crew in Philippines Kidnapping,
Calls for Freedom of Colombian Journalist

The International News Safety Institute (INSI) welcomes with profound relief the safe release of the ABS-CBN news crew in Sulu, Philippines after being held hostage for nine days by the Aby Sayyaf Group. READ MORE

“Magtanim Ay Di Biro” (Planting Rice is Never Fun)
Bandillo ng Palawan Reporter Wins Brightleaf Award for Public Journalism Story on Farmer’s Life

Leny Escaro’s in-depth narrative about the day-to-day life of a farmer in Palawan earned for her the coveted Philip Morris Bright Leaf Award for Best Agriculture Feature Story (Regional) for 2007. READ MORE

“Magtanim ay Di Biro” (Planting Rice Is Never Fun)
by Leny Escaro
THE boxing bout of national pugilist Many “Pacman” Pacquiao has just ended when Bandillo ng Palawan came upon Wilson Salibio, 42, watching the television he acquired by monthly installment. He was happy because Pacman defeated Jose Antonio Barrera of Mexico for the second time. At that moment, Salibio seemed unmindful of the problem of the farm at the back of his house in Barangay Sicsican, Puerto Princesa City. READ MORE

Typhoon Aid
for Region 6 Journalists

Entries Open for 2008 ADBI Awards for Journalists Reporting on Development

Kidnapping and abducting journalists 
KIDNAPPING journalists in the Philippines is still rare event. 

But it always happened in Sulu where peace and order deteriorated immensely in the past years no thanks to the Armed Forces of the Philippines which maintained a pretty sizable force on the island, a little bigger than Camiguin Island.
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Embedded Journalism:
The Rights and Protection of Journalists Covering Armed Conflict
By Red Batario
Journalists today face a broad range of conflict situations that are extremely complex and confusing. From conventional wars with defined battle lines to acts of terrorism that blur boundaries, from banditry to extremism or even pocket wars between feuding clans, journalists have to put themselves in ever increasing danger to get the story out. READ MORE 

Media and War: A Tangled Relationship?
by Red Batario
Let me begin with a quote from the People on War Report of the ICRC worldwide consultation on the rules of war.  The consultation was held in 1999 but its findings still hold true today, an age marked by increasing conflict and violence that threatens lives, ways of life, and our very own humanity.  READ MORE