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Ressa Among Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People

RAPPLER CHIEF Executive Officer and Executive Editor Maria Ressa is one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2019. Ressa joins other global leaders, artists and sports icons in the list. “Now in its 16th year, the TIME 100 is far more than an annual list of the...

PH Slips Further in RSF World Press Freedom Index; Cites Persecution of Critical Media

THE PHILIPPINES dropped one spot in the 2019 World Press Freedom Index released by international media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF-Reporters Without Borders) on April 18. The Philippines ranked 134th out of 180 countries because of the Duterte administration’s continuing threats and attacks against the press. RSF cited the...

Media Watch Groups Notes Increasing Intimidation, Shrinking Space for Free Press in PH

NEW YORK-based press freedom watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) found during their mission to the country last week that journalists in the Philippines are facing increasing levels of intimidation and that the space for the free press is shrinking. The mission was led by CPJ Board Chair Kathleen...

FMA Digital Rights Camp 2019

FOUNDATION FOR Media Alternatives (FMA) is accepting applicants for a series of capacity-building and awareness-raising activities, including the Digital Rights Camp, to advance human rights in the Philippine digital environment. The camp will be held May 29-31 at a venue to be announced later. Established in 1987, the FMA...

Pinoy Lensman Bags World Press Photo Award

FILIPINO PHOTOJOURNALIST Ezra Acayan won second prize in the World Press Photo Award for his photograph of a crime scene after an alleged drug personality was shot dead by unidentified gunmen during a wake in Quezon City in August 2018. Acayan’s photograph shows a member of the police’s Scene...

Reporting Grants for Women’s Stories

THE INTERNATIONAL Women’s Media Foundation’s (IWMF) Reporting Grants for Women’s Stories is accepting applications until April 21. Sponsored by the Secular Society, the IWMF’s Reporting Grants for Women’s Stories is a funding initiative supporting journalism produced by and about women. “In an era of increased globalization, the need for...

Joseph Ubalde, 33

JOURNALIST MARK Joseph Ubalde passed away Monday, April 1. He was 33 years old. The cause of Ubalde’s death is still not known. Reports said his lifeless body was found in a room in a Bonifacio Global City hotel in Taguig. Ubalde was a columnist for The Manila Times....

CMFR Executive Director to receive Hildegarde Award for Print Journalism

CMFR EXECUTIVE Director Melinda Quintos De Jesus will receive this year’s Hildegarde Award for Print Journalism. Melinda Quintos De Jesus was among the women journalists who wrote critically of the Marcos regime during the days of Martial Law at the Bulletin Today. She organized the Center for Media Freedom...

Inquirer Names New Associate Publisher

PHILIPPINE DAILY Inquirer president and CEO Alexandra Prieto-Romualdez has appointed former Central Desk chief Juliet Labog-Javellana as the company’s new associate publisher. Javellana will be management’s senior representative in the editorial group and will have post-oversight responsibility for the content, quality, style and image of the newspaper, the management...

Obit

ENRIQUE ROMUALDEZ, 92 MALAYA BUSINESS Insight executive director Enrique “Pocholo” Romualdez passed away February 28 at the Medical Center Manila. He was 92. Romualdez was editor of several papers including the Daily Express, Taipan Magazine, and the Manila Times. His first job was with the Philippines Commonwealth, then the...