We will not surrender our freedomsToday, Independence Day, we renew our pledge to serve the people, to continue speaking truth to power, and to guard and defend freedom of the press and of expression from all threats.Read More Covering the PandemicRead more Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic CMFR STATEMENT: Philippine Day of Mourning WORLD PRESS Freedom Day has for many years been an occasion for mourning rather than celebration in the Philippines, where, since 1986, 140 journalists and media workers have been killed for their work, among them the 32 killed on November 23, 2009 in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao province. This year’s... Obit COLOMBIAN AUTHOR and journalist Gabriel Garcia Marquez died of pneumonia last April 17. He was 87. BURMESE JOURNALIST Win Tin died of respiratory problems last April 21. He was 85. Obit MEDIA TYCOON Emilio Yap died last April 7. He was 88. FILIPINO JOURNALIST Maria Aurora Madreguera-Parreno died of complications from severe kidney infections last April 4. She was 49. AMERICAN JOURNALIST Curtis Bill Pepper died last April 4. He was 96. Obit FILIPINO BROADCASTER Harry Gasser died from complications of a stroke last April 3. He was 76. AMERICAN JOURNALIST Gail Kerr died last March 25. She was 52. AMERICAN JOURNALIST Jonathan Edward Schell died of cancer last March 25. He was 70. Obit CANADIAN JOURNALIST Heather Robertson died of cancer last March 19. She was 72. AMERICAN REPORTER Robert Joseph “Bob” Thomas died last March 14. He was 92. Obit AMERICAN JOURNALIST Bill McLaughlin died last March 7. He was 76. AMERICAN JOURNALIST Donald Edward Singleton died last March 2. He was 77. Obit AMERICAN JOURNALIST and newspaper editor Lawrence “Bo” Connor died last February 28. He was 88. AMERICAN JOURNALIST William “Bill” Thomas died last February 23. He was 89. Obit AMERICAN TELEVISION journalist Clifton Garrick Utley died of prostate cancer last February 20. He was 74. AMERICAN JOURNALIST Gregory Kane died of cancer last February 18. He was 62. Obit AFRICAN-AMERICAN JOURNALIST Angelo Henderson died last February 15. He was 51. CANADIAN JOURNALIST Peter Desbarats died last February 11 after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 80. Obit FILIPINO GRAPHIC artist Giovanni “Bam” Morillo died in a bus crash in Bontoc, Mountain Province last February 7. He was 32. BRITISH JOURNALIST and editor Georgina Henry died of cancer last February 7. She was 53. « Previous1…56789…21Next »
