News & Issues

The KBP Board ordered its Standards Authority to conduct an in-depth investigation on the propriety of a radio interview conducted by personnel of an RMN radio station in Metro Manila with the hostage taker during the August 23, 2010 hostage taking incident.

The KBP Board ordered its Standards Authority to conduct an in-depth investigation on the propriety of a radio interview conducted by personnel of an RMN radio station in Metro Manila with the hostage taker during the August 23, 2010 hostage taking incident. The decision was arrived at in a special meeting of the KBP [...]

The KBP Board ordered its Standards Authority to conduct an in-depth investigation on the propriety of a radio interview conducted by personnel of an RMN radio station in Metro Manila with the hostage taker during the August 23, 2010 hostage taking incident. The decision was arrived at in a special meeting of the KBP [...]

The broadcast media follows a code of conduct in the coverage of crisis situations, which has been developed and refined after numerous dialogues with authorities. The KBP itself has a provision in its Broadcast Code admonishing its members to take all care so that their reporting does not put lives in greater danger than is [...]

How did the media perform its responsibilities in covering the recent elections? How can we improve coverage of future elections as well as issues on governance? These questions will be the focus of a seminar organized by the KBP on June 18, 2010.
The KBP is organizing the seminar in partnership with the Philippine Press [...]

The KBP has recommended the adoption of the Japanese ISDB-T as the standard for digital television for the Philippines. In a letter sent last March 17 to the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), the KBP’s Board of Trustees said that the decision was based on the study conducted by its Television Committee, which is composed of [...]

The KBP and the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) have resumed the unofficial tally of votes for candidates for national positions based on the printed copy of the election returns gathered by PPCRV from polling centers. The PPCRV, the elections’ accredited citizen arm, is entitled by law to get the fourth copy of [...]

The controversy over the government’s promoting the use of condoms to slow down the spread of AIDS and HIV in the country threatens to spill over to the issue of whether commercials for condoms are appropriate. The National Council for Children’s Television (NCCT) has received a letter from a Lucena City resident complaining against the [...]

March 17, 2010
Which digital television standard will the Philippines adopt? Would it be the European DVB-T or the Japanese ISDB-T? The answer to that question may soon be settled after the KBP submits its position to the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) on the matter before the end of the month.
The issue of which system the [...]

“I came to the Philippines in 1938 and have never regretted one moment of the time. I have been in media in the Philippines for a lifetime – from 1938 until the present. And I feel that media and the Filipino people have given more to me than I have given to them and they [...]