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Iring is Bisaya for cat, iring-iring is…
Something else. I’ve been trying to find its English equivalent but failed. It’s close to flirting but without the sexual connotation. It shares shades of meaning with courting but is less formal and doesn’t mean that the person wants to go steady with the object of the iring-iring. My kumpare and colleague Myke Obenieta says…
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Looking for the Cebu megadome? Use your nose
The Cebu Provincial Government is working on a really tight deadline to finish the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) in time for the city’s hosting of an Asean summit this December. Capitol had long planned for an international convention center and even held an architectural design competition for a megadome but the project was stalled…
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CEGP seminar: putting campus newspapers online
Among the things that I’m really passionate about is encouraging student publications to go online. Not only is online publication cheaper than dead-tree publishing, it’s also very easy to pull off right now because of the existence of easy-to-use content management systems. Online campus journalism also allows student publications to go beyond the one-issue-every-few-months-or-so publication…
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The glass cannot be half-full
Either there is press freedom or not, according to Sun.Star’s pooled editorial. The editorial points out the danger of making police the evaluators of media. Why do cops make poor evaluators? They don’t know the craft and its nuances. Their mind-set is that of victims, whipped frequently by media for lapses and offenses. The paper…
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A call for solidarity
For a few years now, the global media community has named the Philippines among the most dangerous places for journalists. In the past two years, our country has been second only to Iraq in the number of media killings. Philippine journalists have fought hard to roll back the tide of violence. Today, however, the Philippine…