CHR welcomes creation of task force on media killings

Maurice Jitty Villaester 10/13/2016

AN officer of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said the creation of a presidential task force against media killings will show whether the Duterte administration is committed to protecting human rights against extrajudicial killings. CHR Special…

Silencing media to submission

Editorial 10/09/2016

Just as the Duterte administration continues to soak up on the warmth of its high survey ratings and the adulation of its followers, the national and local media find themselves in the crosshairs of the President’s apologists,…

Globe bares media awards winners

PR 09/28/2016

Globe Telecom announced the winners of the 5th Globe Media Excellence Awards (GMEA)-Visayas who have shown exemplary communication skills in promoting sustainable development and bringing social issues to the attention of the public via print, broadcast, or…

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…

Expect electronic FOI by November – Andanar

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 09/23/2016

If the Duterte administration meets its self-imposed deadline, starting Nov. 25, 2016, various information on public transactions will be made available on government websites except for a considerable 166 matters involving national security, executive privilege and invasion…

‘To help banish or manage all disease’

Rina Jimenez-David 09/23/2016

In the movie “The Social Network,” which tells of the beginnings of what would be Facebook and the legal tussle over its ownership and management, FB founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg, is…

CDN bags major awards for print, online

Margarette Managaytay 09/22/2016

IT was a combination of glitz and honor for Cebu Daily News last night as its entries to the prestigious Globe Media Excellence Awards (GMEA) bagged almost all major awards for the Print category and one for…

Social media wars

09/22/2016

The introduction of Web 2.0 has provided a platform for the instant interface of millions of people. But it has also created a new kind of culture — the culture of hate. Most cybercitizens are prejudiced against…

Cebu press council calls on LGUs to enforce FOI order

Lesley Cara Delos Santos 09/22/2016

The Cebu City-Press Council (CCPC) passed a resolution during its 44th quarterly meeting urging local government units of Cebu to uphold transparency by implementing the Freedom of Information (FOI) Executive Order No. 02 series 2016 signed by…

Roxas Resign!

Raymund Fernandez 09/20/2016

Kinutil If Mar Roxas won the presidency, media would certainly have been just as critical of him as they are of the current president. Likely, even more. The claim that media is critical of the sitting president…

Sabotaging co-ops, in vain

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 09/19/2016

If the organizers of last Saturday’s protest rally staged by some barangay residents of Barangay Ibabao-Estancia think the disturbance would spoil the inaugural of the Fonus Cebu Federation of Cooperatives building and funeral care facility, they were…

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