by Franz Co | 21 Jan 2022 | National News
Tsek.ph, the country’s pioneering fact-checking collaboration, will be relaunched on Jan. 24, 2022 in time for the May 9 elections. The launch will be attended by 22 academic, media, and civil society institutions and initiatives that have agreed to collaborate...
by Franz Co | 20 Jan 2022 | Coronavirus, National News
The Philippine Press Institute (PPI) recently held a roundtable discussion that sought to explain why the country’s birthrate has slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic. When the pandemic hit the country in 2020, the prediction was that the lockdowns would...
by Franz Co | 13 Jan 2022 | News
As part of their look into how the digital landscape is playing into the 2022 National Elections, the Philippine Media Monitoring Laboratory (PMM) noted the rise of hyper-partisan YouTube channels. The PMM, an initiative ng UPCMC Department of Communication Research,...
by Franz Co | 24 Dec 2021 | National News
On Friday, December 24, the Commission on Elections released a shorter tentative list of candidates for next year’s national and local elections. The updated list trims down the number of candidates for key positions in next year’s race. The updated list...
by Franz Co | 30 Oct 2021 | News
When the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP) was launched in 2017, the goal was to make the Philippines’ public transportation system more efficient and environmentally friendly by 2020. However, the program has hit more than a few issues—including...
