America’s Black History Month: If Ida B. Wells were alive today

Ryan Macasero 02/04/2017

Every February, the US celebrates Black History Month. While I’m not black, I grew up learning about leaders in the black community who fought for racial equality and justice there. Long before I decided to pursue a…

Is the media ‘biased?’ Journalism in the time of Duterte

Ryan Macasero 01/07/2017

Late last year, during a question and answer portion of a journalism workshop I was speaking at in a local university, a student had asked me bluntly if journalists today were “biased.” I answered just as bluntly,…

Young Teachers’ Boot Camp

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 01/06/2017

Happy New Year! By the time this column goes to print, I am already at the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) waiting for my flight to Manila. I was selected to be one of the 80-plus young…

Tougher days for journalism ahead

Ryan Macasero 12/31/2016

In this year’s 2016 Career Cast report, newspaper reporter had been ranked the worst job in the United States, a consistent ranking for the profession in the job site’s annual anticipated report.  This is the 3rd time…

The New York Times ‘apology’

Stephen D. Capillas 11/24/2016

I mentioned last Friday about US President-elect Donald Trump’s claim about the New York Times apologizing to him through “A Letter to the Readers” that the publication issued last Nov. 13. After reading about it on a…

Division Schools Press Conference opens in Barili

Maurice Jitty Villaester 11/15/2016

Student journalists all over Cebu gathered in Barili, south of Cebu for this year’s Division Schools Press Conference (DSPC) where they will be given different lectures on journalism and compete in different writing contest categories. DSPC 2016…

Journalist urges Ombud: Probe Albuera police chief

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 11/09/2016

A JOURNALIST based in Ormoc City, Leyte has filed a string of complaints against the police chief of Albuera town for allegedly coddling a drug suspect connected to Eastern Visayas’ top drug personality Rolando “Kerwin” Espinosa Jr.…

Police jails newspaper editor, columnists

11/02/2016

ISTANBUL — Turkish police detained the chief editor and at least 11 senior staff of Turkey’s opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper on Monday, a move that signals a widening crackdown on dissenting voices. Editor-in-chief Murat Sabuncu, cartoonist Musa Kart,…

Journalism is not a crime

10/03/2016

(A statement by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines in defense of Filipino journalists Manny Mogato and Karen Lema subjected to cyberbullying by supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte) In what is becoming a common and…

Going home

Jason A. Baguia 09/30/2016

I am going home soon. I do not complain. This is privilege denied to many Filipino workers who spend several years if not decades overseas before they can smell our tropical air again, before they can hold…

Bon Appetit at The Marco Polo

Jaime Picornell 09/24/2016

TWELVE noon on Wednesday, Sept. 21, at the Cafe Marco of the Marco Polo Plaza Hotel and the place was getting filled up by the minute with diners come to enjoy the first day of Bon Appetit.…

Media people light candles at Capitol for fallen colleagues

Nestle L. Semilla 09/23/2016

A GOVERNMENT official, a head of a newspapers association and at least 30 other members of the media lighted candles yesterday at the Cebu Provincial Capitol grounds to commemorate the fallen journalists, which is part of Cebu’s…

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