Cebu Citizens Press Council

Election media center to be set up in March
Sun.Star Cebu, February 11, 2010
An election media center (EMC), initiated by the Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC), will be set up at Camp Sergio Osmeña, headquarters of the regional Philippine National Police (PNP) along Osmeña Blvd., Cebu City.

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Elections 2010
Training for media monitors starts
By Cherry Ann T. Lim
Sun.Star Cebu, January 13, 2010
• They’ll watch and record local press coverage of the 2010 elections
STUDENTS tapped by the Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC) to monitor the election coverage of local print media received training last Friday from a Manila-based press freedom watchdog.

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Election training of journalists pushed
CCPC issues initial recommendations to improve media poll coverage
By Karlon N. Rama
Sun.Star Cebu, December 4, 2009
THE Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC) last Wednesday passed a resolution asking news outfits to secure training for their journalists who will be sent to cover the May elections.

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Cherry Ann T. Lim, assistant executive director of the Cebu Citizens-Press Council, wrote this piece for the October 2009 issue of the Press Forum.

CCPC gains headway to help journalists
By Cherry Ann T. Lim
AFTER members of the Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC) spoke at the consultation of citizens-press councils in Manila last Oct. 26, 2008, journalists from [...]

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Politicians question media spin
Editors welcome news sources’ comments, request proof to back complaints vs. journalists
By Karlon N. Rama
Sun.Star Cebu, September 26, 2009
A CONGRESSWOMAN and an election hopeful urged the media in a forum Thursday to correct how spin doctors are affecting coverage and how journalists themselves slant the news in favor of “the other side.”

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