By DEE AYROSO
From The Vantage Point
Tags: alternative journalism
#Bulatlat20: 20 years of of fearless reporting on human and people’s rights in the Philippines
#Bulatlat’s human rights reporting is true to its name – to search, probe, investigate, inquire, unearth facts. Its stories chronicle the facts, circumstances and travails of human rights victims, as individuals and collectively, while providing the political and socio-economic contexts. Cite any human rights case in the past twenty years and google them to look for accurate, well-written and relevant stories pertaining to these cases, and you may most probably find them on #Bulatlat’s website.
#Bulatlat20 | Filling the gaps
“Conventional wisdom and education taught us about “balance” and “objectivity” and even “neutrality”. These do not always translate to fairness and sometimes can mask the context and nuances of events amid deadlines.”
When journalism seeks to enlighten and not to trivialize
by KRIZZIA DALE A. VILLAFLOR Bulatlat.com MANILA — Last week, I had the great privilege of attending a lecture of columnist, journalist and college professor Luis V. Teodoro on alternative journalism. Prof. Teodoro recently retired from teaching journalism in University of the Philippines where he was a dean of the College of Communications for two…