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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...

A turning point and a test

Statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility on the second anniversary of the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre The international press freedom and media advocacy groups may have designated November 23rd as the International Day to End Impunity. But here in the Philippines, on this, the second...

Self-fulfilling prophecy

Pooled editorial on the Second anniversary of the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre Referring to the extrajudicial killings that were so much a part of the past Arroyo administration, and the killing of journalists that spiked on November 23, 2009, President Benigno Aquino III declared in his 2010 State...

Invitation to Cover'Trail of Impunity'

Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) 22 November 2011 Invitation to Cover and Join 11.23.2011 International Day to End Impunity (IDEI) and Second Anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre Who: National and international media organizations led by the CMFR, FFFJ, National Union of...

The Massacre Watch

“The Ampatuan Massacre was both a reminder of that purpose and among the news media’s most important subjects then, two years ago, as well as now and in the coming years of the trial of the accused planners and perpetrators.” – Luis V. Teodoro Please read below Luis V....

Radio broadcaster survives assassination attempt

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – An Ozamis City-based radio broadcaster survived an assassination attempt allegedly connected to his commentaries against a local politician.