Visayan filmmaker gains nat’l recognition for ‘Miss Bulalacao’

Juli Ann M. Sibi 11/22/2015

Cebu-based filmmaker, poet and journalist Ara Chawdhury garnered national attention after her feature film, Miss Bulalacao, won Best Screenplay in the annual CinemaOne Originals Film Festival. The film is an alien abduction story centered on Dodong, a…

CART-MALLET, DEPP win in Press Freedom Week volley tourney

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 09/13/2015

The Capitol Association of Reporters in Tri-media and the Media Alliance for Law, Liberty, Equality, and Truth (CART-MALLET) and the Defense and Police Press Corps (DEPP) posted separate wins at the start of the 2015 Cebu Press…

Serve the community, Palma tells Cebu media

09/13/2015

“Put your gifts at the service of one another.” Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma issued this challenge to journalists before handing out  awards to media outfits and individuals during the biennial Cebu Archdiocesan Mass Media Awards (CAMMA) at…

CDN columnist, groups honored in 888 Forum

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 08/12/2015

A Cebu Daily News columnist and two government institutions  were honored during yesterday’s 9th anniversary  of the 888 News Forum at the Marco Polo Plaza. CDN columnist Jaime Picornell, the  forum’s individual awardee, was recognized for his…

New judge for Nalzaro libel case

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 06/23/2015

A NEW judge will take over the libel case filed by former Cebu City mayor Tomas Osmeña against tri-media personality Pablito “Bobby” Nalzaro. Judge Ricky Jones Macabaya of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 6 in Cebu…

New judge gets Nalzaro’s libel case

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 06/09/2015

A neophyte judge will handle the libel case against tri-media personality Pablito “Bobby” Nalzaro. The case was raffled yesterday to the sala of Judge Ricky Jones Macabaya of branch 5 of the Regional Trial Court in Cebu…

Nalzaro libel case advances to court

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 06/05/2015

THE libel case against columnist-broadcaster  Pablito “Bobby” Nalzaro was  filed in the Regional Trial Court in Cebu City last Wednesday. The prosecutor junked the broadcaster’s plea to drop the charges.  Bail was set at P10,000. Nalzaro was…

GMA retrenches 200 staff to ‘streamline’ reg’l stations

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, Jhunnex Napallacan 04/26/2015

Network scraps morning TV program in Cebu; Layoff focuses on news  teams   in  Cebu, Bacolod, Davao, Naga, Cagayan de Oro,  and Ilocos TV correspondent Jun Veliganio was about to go on air to deliver a live report…

Ampatuan out on bail

03/09/2015

MANILA, Philippines–The Quezon City Regional Trial Court Branch 221 has ordered the release of Sajid Islam Ampatuan, son of former Maguindanao governor Andal Ampatuan Sr., and one of the accused in the Maguindanao massacre case after posting…

Sad times for free expression

01/09/2015

Journalists and free expression-loving people all over the world struggled for words to describe the terrorist attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris last Tuesday evening (Manila time). Masked gunmen had entered the newsroom and …

Planned, cold-blooded killings mark French newspaper attack

01/08/2015

PARIS — Two heavily armed men in black, their faces hidden by ski masks, take down a police officer on a Paris sidewalk with a spray of bullets. One walks up to the victim, who is sprawled…

Bulletin publisher, Yap dies at 88

04/08/2014

Manila Bulletin Publishing Corp. chairman Emilio T. Yap,  passed away  yesterday. Yap passed away a day before Manila Bulletin was to hold its annual thanksgiving party for clients and advertisers at Puerta Real in Intramuros, Manila prompting…

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