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Visual Media Advocacy Training available

The Organization for Visual Progression (OVP), a new organization that focuses on using visual media as a tool to document human rights abuses and social justice issues, partnered with... Read more

Another Bad Year for the Press: MEDIA GROUP RELEASES 2008 PRESS FREEDOM REPORT

As the year 2008 ended, another radio broadcaster in Northern Samar was killed by unknown assailants. The killing of Leo Mila of dxSY brought to six the number of... Read more

International journalists’ mission tells Arroyo: Stopping killing of journalists could be your legacy

MANILA, Philippines–A multinational Southeast Asian journalists’ mission has called on the Arroyo government to intensify efforts to prosecute the killers of journalists and to arrest the suspected masterminds in... Read more

Regional military unit denies threatening radio broadcaster

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A radio broadcaster from Davao City allegedly received a message through his mobile phone last 16 March 2009 threatening him for his supposedly biased reporting. The radio... Read more

Television news team released from police detention

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A radio reporter and a television cameraman were released last 16 March 2009 after nearly 12 hours of detention in a police station in Batasan Hills, Quezon... Read more

Launch of the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2009 Global Impunity Index in Manila

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) cordially invite you to the launch of CPJ’s 2009 Global Impunity Index in... Read more

Launch of the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2009 Global Impunity Index in Manila

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) cordially invite you to the launch of CPJ’s 2009 Global Impunity Index in... Read more

Unsafe

CHEERS TO various news organizations for providing background reports on the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) instead of the usual day-to-day coverage of the revived issue. Pending a... Read more

Two suspects in slay attempt against radio broadcaster surrender

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Two suspects in the slay attempt against a Cagayan de Oro City-based radio broadcaster surrendered to the local police on 9 March 2009. But both denied involvement... Read more

Legislator refuses to comment on alleged threat against radio broadcaster

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A legislator allegedly threatened a block-time radio broadcaster from Davao del Sur over the radio on 1 March 2009. But the congressman has refused to comment on... Read more