N.B. – This is a press release from the CMFR on the second issue (July 2008) of PJR where I serve as managing editor.

The second issue of the Philippine Journalism Review (PJR), the only refereed journal in Asia devoted to journalism concerns and issues, is now available, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) has announced.

Now an annual, the PJR used to be a press monitoring publication in magazine format. That function has been taken over by the monthly PJR Reports which CMFR also publishes.  The first issue of the reformatted PJR appeared in 2007 and was launched during the awarding ceremonies of the Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism that year.

The 2008 issue of PJR  has a paper by St. Scholastica’s College journalism professor Ma. Aurora  Lolita L. Lomibao on the beat system (“Revisiting the Beat System”), Philippine Daily Inquirer reporter DJ Yap’s “Literary Journalism in the Philippines from the 1950s to the 1980s” and Philippine Social Science Council Technical Services and Information head  Joanne B. Agbisit’s “Media-Policy Interaction in the Passage of the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of  1995.”

GMA 7 researcher Ederic Eder also reviewed an online publication (“Global Voices Online”), while University of the Philippines journalism professor Danilo A. Arao interviewed “barefoot journalism” advocate Ben Domingo (“Understanding Barefoot Journalism”). A commentary by Johanna Camille Sisante on the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s error-correction box  (“The Inquirer Box of Errors”) completes the 2008 issue contents.

University of the Philippines journalism professor and CMFR Deputy Director Luis V. Teodoro edits PJR, assisted by Prof. Danilo A. Arao who is its managing editor. The PJR  Board of Advisers is composed of academics from the Ateneo de Manila, University of Santo Tomas, University of the Philippines, St. Scholastica’s College, Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication and Philippine Daily Inquirer.

PJR copies may be ordered from the CMFR (840-0889, 894-1314 and 894-1326) and the Office of Research and Publication of the UP College of Mass Communication (981-8500 local 2668).