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UN mobilizes to improve safety for journalists and fight impunity

23 November 2012 || UNIS Vienna

PARIS/VIENNA, 23 November (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) - A UN system-wide plan to create a safer working environment for journalists has been give new momentum at a UNESCO-organized meeting that ended in Vienna today.

Why We Chose Mendiola Over Tagaytay

23 November 2012 || CCJD || Red Batario

Quezon City -- It wasn’t exactly a conundrum but a confounding dilemma nonetheless, this business of choosing between dissecting the corrosive impact of corruption on the Philippine news media while savoring the coolness of the highlands or translating the fight against corruption and impunity into action while marching in the festering heat of the city. 

Vienna meeting to launch implementation of UN Action Plan on the Safety of Journalists

07 November 2012 || UNIS Vienna
PARIS/VIENNA (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) - In the first nine months of 2012 UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova condemned 95 killings of journalists, media workers and bloggers, a dramatic increase compared to previous years. 

Media-Citizen Engagement Project in Mindanao Seeks to Push ARMM Reforms 

September 2012 || CCJD || Red Batario

The Center for Community Journalism and Development (CCJD) in partnership with The Asia Foundation (TAF), has recently signed an agreement to undertake 12-month project “Strengthening Media-Citizen Engagement for Reforms in the ARMM” in three key areas in the region.

MILF Peace Panel Holds First Ever Dialogue with Manila Press

18 June 2012 || CCJD || Red Batario

Led by its chairman, Mohagher Iqbal, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) peace panel on June 15 held a dialogue with members of the Manila news media to discuss the GPH-MILF “decision points on principles” signed by the two panels in April 2012. 

Public Journalism in Disaster Risk and Climate Change Reporting

November 2011

Mindanao journalists during their community immersion in Barangays Damacling and Tual in Paglat, Maguindanao in November 2011 as part of their training on disaster risk reduction reporting and citizen engagement through public journalism.  Organized by the Center for Community Journalism and Development (CCJD) in partnership with Oxfam, the three-day training aimed not only to enhance media reporting knowledge and skills on disaster risk and climate change but also to establish partnerships with development agencies, public sector institutions and citizens.

Burmese, Thai Journalists Welcome INSI Hostile Environment Training

06 January 2011 || CCJD || Red Batario

BANGKOK,Thailand– Twenty-four Burmese and 18 Thai frontline journalists completed a two-and-a-half-day hostile environment, first aid and trauma awareness training organized by the International News Safety Institute (INSI) last December9 to 12in Chiang Mai in the country’s north and December 17 to 19 in Prachinburi province.

Training on Protection and Advocacy Strategy for Pakistan Human Rights Defenders and Journalists 

May 2011 || CCJD || Red Batario

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Twenty Pakistani journalists and human rights defenders flew to the Thai capital of Bangkok on May 2-4 to participate in a unique training activity focusing on human rights protection and advocacy. 

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Freedom of Information, the Press and Civil Society

25 March 2010 || CCJD || Red Batario

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News from the Bottom Up

16 October 2008 || CCJD || Red Batario

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Corruption-Proofing the MDGs: Public Journalism Initiatives in Philippine Communities

17 July 2008 || CCJD || Red Batario

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Media and War: A Tangled Relationship?

18 July 2007 || CCJD || Red Batario

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Embedded Journalism:The Rights and Protection of Journalists Covering Armed Conflict

24 February 2007 || CCJD || Red Batario

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Journalists Under Fire: Years of Living Dangerously, Again

26 May 2006 || CCJD || Red Batario

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Media Governance, Media in Governance: Bad News, Good News

03 December 2004 || CCJD || Red Batario

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Media’s Role in Conflict and Terrorism

12 December 2003 || CCJD || Red Batario

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Bringing the News Back to Where it Belongs: The People

11 October 2002 || CCJD || Red Batario

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PUBLIC JOURNALISM: A NEW APPROACH TO SETTING THE NEWS AGENDA

 CCJD || Red Batario

As the social, political, and economic environment in many local areas throughout thePhilippinesis dramatically changed by the decentralization of governance as articulated by the Local Government Code of 1991, communities will be facing new burdens and challenges: that of making informed decisions in the face of scarce resources.


ACTIVIST JOURNALISM ON BEHALF OF SELF-GOVERNMENT

CCJD || Red Batario

About two years ago, the Center for Community Journalism and Development (CCJD), a non-profit, non-government organization working for better communities through better journalism, was invited by the Philippine Press Institute (PPI) and the Coca Cola Export Corporation to a meeting.


THE VISAYAS EXAMINER’S EXPERIMENT WITH PUBLIC JOURNALISM 

CCJD || Red Batario

The Visays Examiner (TVE) was born in March 1999 as an alternative newspaper.  Through the years it strove to be a credible source of information that deeply respects the divergent voices in the community and supports advocacies like the environment, women, children, and good governance.

 

 DOING THE CIVIC MAP IN PUBLIC JOURNALISM: A QUICK GUIDE

CCJD || Red Batario