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Tag: 2023

  • Categories News

    Attacks on journalists continue under Marcos: 2023 DNR Philippines

    By Yvonne T. Chua  |  Jun 14, 2023 7:02 AM

    The Philippine media landscape remains largely grim despite the change in the country’s leadership in mid-2022. Attacks on journalists, which escalated during the six-year presidency of Rodrigo Duterte, have not let up since Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office.

    2023, Digital News Report, Philippines

  • Categories Editor's Pick News

    Media criticism linked to low trust in news—Digital News Report 2023

    By Yvonne T. Chua  |  Jun 14, 2023 7:01 AM

    An overwhelming majority of adult Filipinos have come across people criticizing journalists or the news media in the country, with nearly half of them tagging politicians and ordinary people as the leading sources.

    2023, Digital News Report, media criticism

  • McLuhan fellows and veteran journalists in a forum during the 2023 PJRC at the UP College of Mass Communication on Friday, May 5.
    Categories News

    Conference highlights role of the press in social media and disinformation age

    By Rhoanne De Guzman  |  May 06, 2023 4:42 PM

    Amid the rising prevalence of social media and the persisting dilemma of disinformation, aspiring journalists are reminded that the role of the press in a democratic society remains indispensable and is needed now more than ever.

    2023, chit estella awards for journalism, Journalism, PJRC

  • Nagkakaisang panawagan ng manggagawa 1/12 Photo by Bullit Marquez for VERA Files
    Categories Bullit's Eye News

    Nagkakaisang panawagan ng manggagawa

    By Bullit Marquez  |  May 01, 2023 8:23 PM

    Nagsanib pwersa ang mga grupo ng militanteng manggagawa at ‘yung mga may simpatiya sa mga kapitalista para palakasin ang sigaw nila sa pamahalaan at sa publiko na pakinggan ang kanilang mga hinaing, kasama na ang kahilingan para sa pagtaas ng sweldo at pagbaba ang presyo ng mga bilihin.

    2023, Labor Day

  • Celebrating Eid’l al-Fitr 1/14 Photo by Bullit Marquez
    Categories Bullit's Eye News

    Celebrating Eid al-Fitr

    By Bullit Marquez  |  Apr 22, 2023 8:10 PM

    Filipino Muslims gather at Rizal Park in Manila to celebrate the end of the month of Ramadan Saturday, April 22. It was the first on-site prayer following the pandemic. Photos by BULLIT MARQUEZ for VERA FILES

    2023, Eid’l Fitr

  • Solar Eclipse 2023. Photo by Bullit Marquez
    Categories Bullit's Eye News

    Solar eclipse 2023

    By Bullit Marquez  |  Apr 20, 2023 7:31 PM

    Students and employees of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration watch the partial solar eclipse on Thursday, April 20, at the PAGASA Astronomical Observatory at the University of the Philippines – Diliman campus in Quezon City. – Photos by Bullit Marquez for VERA Files.

    2023, solar eclipse

  • Allowing Earth to breathe for 60 minutes 1/18. Photos by Bullit Marquez
    Categories Bullit's Eye Earth Files News

    Allowing Earth to breathe for 60 minutes

    By Bullit Marquez  |  Mar 26, 2023 6:10 PM

    Metro Manila residents who care for the world we live in gather in the evening of March 25 at the Quezon Memorial Circle for the symbolic 60-minute switching off of lights as their contribution to save Mother Earth from man-made degradation.

    2023, Earth Hour, quezon city

  • Categories Commentary

    Tougher times ahead

    By Tita c. Valderama  |  Jan 02, 2023 11:30 AM

    What can ordinary Filipinos do to manage the effects of inflation? We have to further tighten our belts and avoid overspending.

    2023, department of agriculture, inflation

  • Migz Zubiri
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Zubiri na maaaring gamitin ang confidential funds para sa pagkukumpuni ng mga silid-aralan hindi totoo

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 01, 2022 12:29 PM

    Mali ang pahayag ni Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri noong Nob. 7 na maaaring gamitin ang confidential funds sa pagkukumpuni ng mga silid-aralan.

    2023, commission on audit, Confidential and Intelligence Funds, Koko Pimentel, Migz Zubiri, national budget, Senate

  • Migz Zubiri
    Categories FACT CHECK NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Zubiri inaccurately claims that confidential funds can be used for repair of classrooms

    By VERA Files  |  Dec 01, 2022 12:29 PM

    A 2015 Commission on Audit (COA) set of guidelines defines confidential expenses as lump sum amounts for “surveillance activities in civilian government agencies.” It categorically states that “in no case shall (confidential or intelligence funds) be used for … construction or acquisition of buildings or housing structures.”

    2023, commission on audit, Confidential and Intelligence Funds, Koko Pimentel, Migz Zubiri, national budget, Senate

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