by mediatimes | Mar 29, 2021 | Media Times 2020
FIRST PERSON Pandemic Blues MANNY MOGATO Mogato and his two colleagues were awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for InternationalReporting for the Reuter’s series “Duterte’s War,” which exposed the brutal killing campaign behind the war on drugs in the Philippines. ...
by mediatimes | Mar 29, 2021 | Media Times 2020
FIRST PERSON Duterte, not the pandemic, is biggest threat to PH journalists today CHRISTIAN ESGUERRA Esguerra is a journalist and an educator. He is a correspondent atABS-CBN News Channel (ANC). He also teaches political journalism and media ethics atthe University of...
by mediatimes | Mar 29, 2021 | Media Times 2020
FIRST PERSON This pandemic could be journalism’s pivotal moment CAMILLE DIOLA Diola is the editor of Philstar.com and Interaksyon. Her views do not reflect those of her employer. NO ONE saw coming a single event that could change journalism literally...
by mediatimes | Mar 29, 2021 | Media Times 2020
THE DUTERTE campaign in 2015 harnessed the power of social media to coordinate unified messages in a continuing flow, using social media influencers to paint an image of the mayor running for president in the most favorable light. After Duterte won, the Palace...
by mediatimes | Mar 29, 2021 | Media Times 2020
PUBLISHER’S NOTE MELINDA QUINTOS DE JESUS Executive Director, CMFR THE FAILED BATTLE AGAINST COVID-19 A country situated on the typhoon belt was struck with the perfect storm that has proved more devastating than disasters wrought by extreme climactic...
by mediatimes | Mar 29, 2021 | Media Times 2020
LIKE A cry in the wilderness, it was not heard. At the time, it was a probably more a prayer said in desperate silence. Two weeks into the lockdown, journalists were still in a fog of quarantine and the strangeness of physical isolation. Working with limited reach to...
