Cebu Citizens-Press Council

Cebu Print Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections
Fourth Monitoring Period
(March 28-April 10, 2010)
Written on April 20, 2010 – 3:33 am

A month before the May 10, 2010 elections, there was a slight increase in the percentage of election-related reports from 28% in the third monitoring period to 29% in the fourth monitoring period. Both Bisaya-language newspapers had the same number of election-related reports but SuperBalita allotted a bigger proportion of its news pages to election-related reports (35%) compared to Banat (23%). [Read more →]

Cebu Print Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections
Fourth Monitoring Period
(March 28-April 10 2010)
Written on April 20, 2010 – 3:25 am

CEBU’S ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DAILIES

Weeks 7 and 8 covering March 28-April 10, 2010 saw a slight decrease in the number of election-related reports from 388 in Weeks 5 and 6 to 353 reports about the elections. Proportionally however, news content about the elections increased to 30% of the news hole from 26% in Weeks 5 and 6 and 22% in Weeks 3 and 4. [Read more →]

CEBU CITIZENS-PRESS COUNCIL SENDS TEAM
Tagbilaran mayor won’t close media outlets
By Elias O. Baquero
Sun.Star Cebu, June 18, 2010

TAGBILARAN City Mayor Dan Lim assured a fact-finding team from the Cebu Citizens-Press Council (CCPC) he won’t order the closure of The Bohol Chronicle Radio Corp. (BCRC), which operates the Bohol Chronicle newspaper and three radio stations, for alleged non-payment of the full amount of due sales taxes. [Read more →]

Cebu Print Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections
Third Monitoring Period
(March 14-27 2010)
Written on May 6, 2010 – 5:30 am

The number of election-related news reports continued to increase as the May 10, 2010 elections drew near. From 335 (22%) reports in Weeks 3 and 4, there were 388 reports about the elections or 26% of the news hole in Weeks 5 and 6. [Read more →]

Cebu Print Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections
Second Monitoring Period
(Feb. 28-March 13, 2010)
Written on March 28, 2010 – 8:39 am

Weeks 3 and 4 (February 28-March 13) of the monitoring period showed an increase in the percentage of election-related reports in Cebu’s English-language dailies from 19 percent to 22 percent (335 election-related reports to 1,511 news hole). Both Sun.Star Cebu and The Freeman allocated 23 percent of their news holes to election-related reports while the Cebu Daily News had 19 percent. A shift in emphasis from the local to the Presidential elections was evident. [Read more →]