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PCIJ Training on SALN

PCIJ will conduct another briefing on January 27. Go to http://pcij.org/blog/2012/01/13/do-the-saln-salsa-with-pcij to know more.

Publisher threatened after condemning media killings

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A newspaper publisher in General Santos City claimed he received a threatening text (SMS) message last 17 January 2012 after calling for the arrest of the killers and masterminds in the murder of a fellow publisher last 5 January 2012.

Harassments marked start of 2012

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Attacks against journalists and media workers marked the start of 2012 in the Philippines.

Journalists, media workers harassed in Manila demolition

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Local anti-riot police detained and manhandled a group of journalists and media workers during the demolition of an allegedly illegal settlement in San Juan City last 11 January 2012. San Juan is a city within the Philippines’ National Capital Region (Metro Manila).

Publisher killed in Bohol province

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – NO SUSPECT has been identified in the 15 December 2011 killing of a local newspaper publisher in Trinidad City, Bohol province. Bohol is a province 640 kilometers south of Manila.

Publisher shot dead in General Santos City

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Police are still investigating the killing of a newspaper publisher in General Santos City last 5 January 2012. General Santos City is a chartered city in Mindanao approximately 1049 kilometers south of Manila.

Asian Media Barometer: The Philippines 2011Excess of freedom, impunity; Deficit of ethics, self-criticism

The Philippine media community, one of the freest and most rambunctious in all of Asia, is an incredible, hopefully not incorrigible, story of dissonant currents and practices.

A conversation on impunity

Recording of live Q&A in Vienna on 23 November 2011 with experts who are combating impunity in some of the world’s most dangerous countries to be a journalist. See if your questions got answered by our esteemed panel of experts: Alison Bethel McKenzie, Executive Director, International Press Institute Andrei...

TV reporter warned of plot to kill him

A field reporter of a TV network said he has learned of an assassination plot against him for a report on illegal logging that he did involving a businessman in Butuan City.

A United Front in Fighting Impunity: A video produced by CMFR for IFEX

In commemoration of the 2nd year since the Ampatuan Massacre and the first International Day to End Impunity, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility produced a short video on how press freedom advocates and journalists’ groups responded to the Massacre in November 2009. This video was produced with...