POOLED EDITORIAL: Challenges old and new

09/18/2023

The fact that we are celebrating the 31st anniversary of Cebu Press Freedom Week means the journalism industry lives on. But is it dying a slow death? What challenges threaten journalism and the media? We can name…

Race against forgetting the fight for freedom

Pooled Editorial 09/19/2022

FIFTY years is a long time, long enough for memories to fade. But what happened on September 21, 1972, will stand out despite the years because the dictatorship that followed was not mere chismis (gossip). On that…

Cebu media bid farewell to ‘Superbob’

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 03/18/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu’s media industry mourned the passing on March 17, 2022 of hard-hitting columnist and renowned local television news anchor, Pablito “Bobby” Nalzaro. Nalzaro was one of the main anchors of GMA Regional TV Central Visayas…

Cebu media told: Freedom is being able to choose what is good

Rosalie O. Abatayo 09/20/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Cebu media community is reminded of the “absolute” meaning of freedom which is one’s ability to chose what is good, as it marks this Sunday, September 20, 2020, the opening of the…

CCPC Statement on the alleged media plot to destabilize government

Cebu Citizens Press Council 04/24/2019

CEBU CITIZENS-PRESS COUNCIL Statement on alleged media plot to destabilize government April 23, 2019 One, the news report cited anonymous sources.  Two, the basis was a matrix that didn’t show it was evidence-based and thus could be…

Thanks, Cebu media

Raymund Fernandez 01/11/2017

Kinutil takes this opportunity to thank Cebu media for its help in announcing to the public the book “Kamingaw: An Impressionist Portrait of the Bisaya Painter Martino A. Abellana.” This book is published by the University of…

Press Freedom Week closes with a bang

Morexette Erram 09/25/2016

The 22nd Press Freedom Week ended with a blast as print, broadcast and online journalists from all beats in Cebu came dressed in replicated police uniforms, had scrawled doodles to look like tattoos on their backs, and…

‘No envelopes’ policy for Cebu media outlets

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 10/11/2015

CEBU’s major news  outlets reiterated their policy to reject cash or inappropriate gifts from news sources during a forum   with mass media student  on prepartions for  the 2016 elections. The forum held at the Southwestern University (SWU)…

Cebu media told: Forge love despite competition

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Marian Z. Codilla 09/22/2014

Hundreds of Cebu-based journalists and media workers converged yesterday at the Fuente Osmeña Circle for the annual parade and general assembly to kick off this week’s 20th Cebu Press Freedom Week celebration. The parade which ended at…

Civil society, Cebu media sign nationwide FOI petition

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/02/2014

Civil society groups and the Cebu media yesterday joined a nationwide signing of a petition calling on President Aquino and the members of Congress to immediately pass and enact into law the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill.…

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