Cebu Journalism & Journalists

Second “Stop the press” order
since the Covid period. Digital
shift may be for good this time.
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Daily Star suspended publication in October 2020, later resumed, and now announces another stoppage of its print edition.
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In Comment official statement, CMFR article about Daily Star’s first print stoppage in 2020.

“Community journalism is
about being in the same room
as the people you write about.”
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in Comment: list of the 2025 winners awarded this week by Philippine Press Institute, the national association of community newspapers.

There are still news
correspondents but no
longer the clan that it was.
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Visit CJJ: https://cebujournalism.ph

The family that owned
“Southern Tribune,” a Cebu
newspaper, ran the bar
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In Comment: a 3/9/23 post by Charles O. Sy under “Memories of Old Cebu”

Cagayan de Oro news media’s
first public outcry for press
freedom was started by the mayor.
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Freedom fighter, then Mayor Nene Pimentel set off the annual celebration and shoutout for press freedom.
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(More in Comment)

Now in CJJ:
Something about
Jerry Tundag
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https://cebujournalism.ph/archives/11882

Newly added to CJJ:
under the section
“Journos’ ‘I’ Notebook”
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Something about Jerry.
https://cebujournalism.ph/archives/11882

After Cebu City’s FOI
(signed by Mike Rama
in 2022), Pam Baricuatro
will sign the province FOI.
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Freeman story
https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/cebu-news/2026/05/26/2530618/transparency-capitol-foi-ordinance-okd/amp
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Cebu Capitol’s FB story
https://www.facebook.com/share/18ddP3yVeP/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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[Photos: PB Member Malcolm A. Sanchez, principal author of the FOI ordinance. P.I.O. Ainjeliz de la Torre-Orong whose office is “tasked with drafting” the IRR or implementing rules.]