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STRIKER’S HARANGUE During a newscast, a broadcaster told a reporter to ask for updates on the ongoing jeepney strike to one of the organizers. When the reporter asked the organizer how their strike was ongoing, she made…
BRIBE CLAIM Local reporters were abuzz over reports that a top Palace official alleged that some reporters covering the Senate allegedly received $1,000 each in order to cover a press conference of a critic of President Rodrigo…
GAY LANGUAGE Rather than a straightforward interview, a reporter and his news source decided to talk using gay lingo. The reporter was shocked when the news source said, “Ilab-ilab ra ba si oka.” (I used gay language).…
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,…
We are disappointed that Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña decided to “ban” from his office the City Hall reporter of Cebu Daily News, Jose Santino Bunachita, for no apparent reason other than saying “he (Santino) knows why.”…
CHARITY WORKER A reporter interviewing a fire victim in a slum area in Cebu City was swarmed by other fire victims who thought he was a social worker listing the names of beneficiaries of cash aid. Even…
A detained female drug suspect perhaps encapsulated what is one of many reasons why the illegal drug trade continues unabated despite the hammer-and-tongs approach used by the Duterte administration in hopes of permanently shutting it down. Interviewed…
BRAZEN THIEF A correspondent was interviewing a fish vendor in a public market when a man walked beside her and tried to calmly grab her phone. The man, who was bare chested and appeared to be drunk,…
A veteran radio reporter has complained about a tourist police who allegedly threatened him during a 20-minute confrontation in Lapu-Lapu City last Sept. 2. Norman Mendoza of DySS Super Radyo (RGMA) said SPO2 Esnang Sarapuddin hinted at…
“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…
CEBU City’s Association of Barangay Councils (ABC) confirmed today that they contracted blocktime commentator Roger Cimafranca as their liaison officer. ABC president Philip Zafra said they will investigate Cimafranca who was recorded on video camera as having…
Cebu Daily News columnist Radel Paredes remembers Cynthia Oquendo-Ayon, one of the victims of the Maguindanao massacre, playing the piano in the dark halls of the University of San Carlos auditorium where she was a political science…
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