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We will not surrender our freedoms

Today, 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.

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The Silent Media

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STATEMENT: Toward Resolving the Ortega Case

The deportation to the Philippines and subsequent arrest of the alleged masterminds in the 2011 killing of broadcaster and environmental advocate Gerardo Ortega have awakened hopes that the suspected brains behind the killing of a journalist would be prosecuted. If government acts promptly, the recent arrest of...

[MEDIA ADVISORY: FOR COVERAGE] ON THE FIFTH YEAR OF THE AMPATUAN MASSACRE: Chief Justice Sereno to Keynote Forum on Impunity

Chief Justice Maria Lourdes P. A. Sereno will keynote the Journalism Asia Forum (JAF) on November 23, 2014 organized by the Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility (CMFR). The event observes the fifth anniversary of the Ampatuan (Maguindanao) Massacre of November 23, 2009. The registration starts at 9 a.m....

FFFJ: Lift the Ban on Media Coverage of the Ampatuan Massacre Trial

STATEMENT OF THE FREEDOM FUND FOR FILIPINO JOURNALISTS A coalition of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP), the Philippine Center Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), the Center for Community Journalism and Development (CCJD), and the Philippine Press Institute (PPI), the Freedom...

Radio anchor acquitted of libel

CMFR/Philippines – A court in San Jose town, Occidental Mindoro province, acquitted a radio anchor of a libel charge on 2 June 2014. San Jose is about 400 kilometers south of Metro Manila. Branch 46 of the San Jose Regional Trial Court acquitted radio anchor Alex del Valle of one count...

FFFJ: Beyond the Numbers

Statement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) on Secretary Herminio Coloma’s claim that there is “no more culture of impunity” IS THERE “no more culture of impunity” as Secretary Herminio “Sonny” Coloma of the Presidential Communication Operations Office argued during a press conference last November 22, on...

FFFJ: Corruption and the Killing of Journalists

Statement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists Janet Napoles and company may not have merely orchestrated the P10 billion pork barrel scam. It now seems that they could also be among the beneficiaries of the misuse of P728 million in fertilizer funds in 2004. Whistle-blower Benhur Luy has...

FFFJ: One More Delay in a Long List of Delays

THE DEFERMENT of the arraignment of two of the principal accused in the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan town massacre adds to the already long list of delays in the judicial process that for four years have thrown one obstacle after another in the path of credibly concluding the trial...

Being FFFJ Counsel

“FFFJ?” It’s the same old story. Rather, the same old reaction whenever I’m asked about my work as private prosecutor in media killing cases and I answer, “I’m here as FFFJ legal counsel.”

Attacking press freedom while “enhancing” it

CERTIFIED by President Benigno Aquino III as a priority bill last January, the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act will be among those discussed by the House of Representatives when Congress re-convenes on May 7, or, significantly enough, four days after Press Freedom Day is celebrated all over the world.

The Persistence of Impunity:A Bad Start for the New Year

Statement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) on the killing of Christopher “Cris” Guarin THE KILLING of General Santos newspaper publisher and RMN blocktimer Christopher Guarin hardly a week since the new year began is one more indication of the persistence of the culture of impunity that encourages...