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Local police chief threatens radio journalist

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Philippine National Police has ordered the temporary relief of a town police chief after his alleged 20 May 2010 harassment of a Manila-based radio broadcaster. The relief order came after Noel Alamar, a reporter for dzMM Radyo Patrol and president of the Philippine National Police (PNP)...

No arrests in attempt on broadcaster

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Police have yet to arrest the gunman and accomplice in the attempted killing of a Kalinga-based radio broadcaster in Tabuk City, Kalinga province last 15 May 2010. Tabuk City, Kalinga is approximately 317 kilometers north of Manila. The alleged gunman chased Jerome Tabanganay, radio anchor for government-run...

CMFR Philippines Alert: Reporters receives death threat after exposing election anomalies

A television and a radio reporter for the ABS-CBN network received death threats in Lanao del Norte, a province located in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), after reporting election irregularities in the province. ARMM is in Mindanao, the second largest and southernmost island of the Philippines. ABS-CBN...

Councilor beats hard-hitting journalist

A hard-hitting TV host and tabloid columnist in Laguna (30 kilometers south of Metro Manila) was reportedly mauled by a city councilor on 16 May. Local journalist Iring Maranan was allegedly assaulted physically by San Pablo City Councilor Edgardo Adajar, while he was covering the regular session of the...

Cebu journalists face libel suit

Five Cebu-based journalists are facing libel charges for publishing stories implicating a municipal mayor as the mastermind of the P94-million bank robbery in Bogo, northern part of Cebu. Sun.Star Cebu editor-in-chief Pachico Seares, managing editor for news Isolde Amante, news editor Maria Carmel Geverola and reporters Mia Abellana and...

Photojournalist held by military

After mistaking him for a rebel, a photojournalist working for a national daily was held by local police and military last 4 October in Tarlac City, around 130 kilometers north of Manila. Rene Dilan, a photographer of The Manila Times, was responding to an earlier tip from an unnamed...

Newsbreak editor gets death threat

It would seen that threats against journalists and freedom of expression are no longer confined to the provinces but has made its way to the capital. It is indeed an indication of the sad state of affairs even as it is another proof that the culture of impunity makes...

Radio station ordered closed for maligning local official

A mayor in a southern Philippine city ordered the closure of a local radio station, which had been criticizing him on-air. Mayor Jose Galario Jr. of Valencia City, Bukidnon, cancelled the business permit of Radio Mindanao Network’s station dxVR-FM on 25 July 2005. Galario said dxVR acting station manager...