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 →]
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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 →]
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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 →]
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Print Media Coverage of the 2010 Elections: Cebu’s Bisaya Dailies
First Monitoring Period
(Feb. 10-27, 2010)
Written on March 11, 2010 – 8:59 pm | by media |
CEBU’S BISAYA DAILIES (Feb.10-27, 2010)
For 2010, CMFR is monitoring the coverage of the national elections, but has also entered into a partnership with the Cebu Citizens-Press Council to include a monitor of the Cebu press’s coverage of both the national and local elections. [Read more →]
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The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility Monitor of Media Coverage of the May 2010 Elections
First Monitoring Period
(Feb. 10-27, 2010)
Written on March 8, 2010 – 3:46 am
CMFR has been monitoring media coverage of Philippine elections since 1992, and reporting the results through the Philippine Journalism Review and, in 2004 and 2007, in special publications. [Read more →]