Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, Makati City, Philippines.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005-05-04
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25264
Notes:
Retrieved September 16, 2006, Center web site. 5 pages., Reports on the shooting of journalist Marlene Garcia Esparat for reporting about allegged malfeasances of local Department of Agriculture officials.
Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, Makati City, Philippines.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2006-02-14
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25265
Notes:
Retrieved September 16, 2006, Center web site. 4 pages., Reports on the shooting of journalist Marlene Garcia Esparat for reporting about alleged malfeasances of local Department of Agriculture officials.
Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, Makati City, Philippines.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2006-10-05
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25266
Notes:
Retrieved January 15, 2007, Center web site. 3 pages., Update on the 2005 shooting of journalist Marlene Garcia Esparat for reporting about alleged malfeasances of local Department of Agriculture officials.
Via online issue. 4 pages., Reports the impact of internet communications in revealing a problem of infant milk being tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical illegally added.
Collins, Ronald K.L. (author) and Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
1998-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24431
Notes:
Retrieved July 7, 2006, From the Baltimore Sun (Maryland) via CSPI. 3 pages., In the interest of First Amendment protection, author says "it is essential that existing food-disparagement laws be rejected in the courts and legislatures of this land."
Committee to Protect Journalists, New York City, New York.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005-04-11
Published:
Afghanistan
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25268
Notes:
Retrieved September 16, 2006, Via CPJ web site. 1 page., Brief notice that rural reporters in Afghanistan remain at risk of threats and violent attacks in reprisal for their work.
Cooper, Ann (author) and Committee to Protect Journalists, New York City, New York.
Format:
Letter
Publication Date:
2006-05-15
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25267
Notes:
Retrieved September 16, 2006, Via CPJ web site. 3 pages., Letter from the Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists to Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines. Urges efforts to ensure the arrest, trial and conviction of those responsible for killing Philippine journalists, including rural reporter Marlene Garcia Esparat.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24442
Notes:
Retrieved July 6, 2006, International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State, via allAfrica.com. 2 pages., "Web site allAfrica.com is embodiment of growing free press in Africa."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24724
Notes:
Retrieved October 14, 2005, Via Science and Development Network. 4 pages., "A democratic dialogue over science-related issues is critical for modern societies. But providing reliable information in an accessible way is an essential prerequisite for this to occur." Author notes a worrying trend within much of the world's media whereby a traditional commitment to reporting facts is giving way to coverage on interpretations of fact (or "spin").