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Man with Explosives Apprehended Near GMA Network

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A man carrying homemade explosives was stopped by security guards in front of the GMA Annex Building along GMA Network Drive in Quezon City, noontime on Christmas day. A GMA News Online report said the suspect was found with Molotov bombs and was supposedly able to set...

Army Corporal Convicted of Frustrated Homicide of Blocktimer; Another Accused Acquitted

CMFR/Philippines – A court in Kabacan, North Cotabato found guilty an army corporal for the frustrated homicide of blocktime broadcaster Alberto Martinez in April 2005. However it acquitted the other accused for insufficiency of evidence. In a decision dated 21 November 2018, Branch 22 of the Regional Trial Court...

Rappler’s Maria Ressa Posts Bail

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — Rappler CEO and Rappler Holdings Corporation (RHC) President Maria Ressa posted bail on December 3, 2018 at Branch 265 of the Pasig City Regional Trial Court (RTC) in connection with charges that RHC violated the Tax Code. Judge Danilo Buemio of the Pasig City RTC issued...

CASE FILES: The 12 Journalists Killed Under the Duterte Administration

Surigao broadcaster first killed under Duterte administration JUST two weeks after President Rodrigo R. Duterte assumed office on June 30, 2016, newly-elected Surigao provincial board member and broadcaster Apolinario Suan Jr. became the first journalist to be murdered under his administration. Suan, a radio anchor at Real FM...

THE STATE OF PHILIPPINE MEDIA: Relentless Attacks And Threats Online, On Ground, Across the Nation

By the Freedom for Media, Freedom for All Network Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, Philippine Press Institute (PPI), MindaNews, and Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) ATTACKS AND THREATS against the Philippine media — acute and creeping, online and...

DOJ indicts Maria Ressa, Rappler Holdings Co. for tax evasion

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — The Department of Justice (DOJ) has found probable cause to charge Rappler Holdings Corporation (RHC) with tax evasion over the sale of its Philippine Depositary Receipts (PDRs) to two foreign entities in 2015. Along with the company, its president Maria Ressa and its independent accountant Noel...

Police Ask Media for “Favorable Coverage”

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) and the Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOCPPO) visited some local news offices last week to ask for “favorable coverage” of the Philippine National Police’s (PNP) drug campaign. Bacolod City is 709.5 kilometers from Manila. On October 3, four NOCPPO...

Broadcaster’s house shot at in Negros Occidental

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Unidentified men on two motorcycles fired shots at the house of a radio broadcaster in Talisay City, Negros Occidental on September 19, Wednesday evening. Negros Occidental is 783 kilometers south of Manila. Local radio broadcaster Rey Siason of Muews Radio was not home when the shooting...

Inquirer Reporter Tagged as Terrorist by Facebook Page

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — A Mindanao-based reporter for the Philippine Daily Inquirer was labeled a terrorist by a Facebook page after she reported the killing by a unit of the Philippine Army of seven men it claimed were members of the Abu Sayyaf Group. In “7 young Tausug men killed...

Journalists Attacked, Arrested in Picket Line

CMFR/ PHILIPPINES — In one of the worst incidents of its kind, journalists covering a workers’ picket line near a condiments factory in Marilao, Bulacan province were attacked, threatened, arrested and accused of possessing illegal drugs and firearms by the police on 30 July 2018. Bulacan is 42...