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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.

Newspaper executive killed in General Santos City

CMFR/PHILIPPINES - The circulation manager of a newspaper in General Santos City was shot dead by a motorcycle-riding gunman outside his office last 11 November 2011.

Calling News Editors, Bloggers, Social Media Users: Public Service Announcements on the Killing of Journalists in the Philippines

As part of the Philippine campaign for November 23 as the first International Day to End Impunity (IDEI), the Freedom Fund for Freedom Fund Journalists (FFFJ) has produced three 30-second Public Service Announcements (PSAs), which we earnestly hope news editors, bloggers, and social media users could broadcast and upload...

PJR Reports September – October 2011

Editor’s Note: FOCUS THE POSSIBILITY that some of the journalists who have been killed in this country since 1986 might not have been ethical, or even corrupt, isn’t exactly a Revelation of Biblical proportions. One of the characteristics of the media and press community in the Philippines is its...

Finding justice for the slain journalists‘Extraordinary’ delays

INSTEAD OF speeding up the quest for justice, legal procedures can be used to delay, and worse, even bring judicial proceedings to a standstill. Petitions for certiorari and prohibition are two of the often abused extraordinary legal remedies in the Philippines.

Remembering “Sir PD”

Today is the first death anniversary of Leo B. Dacera III. The longest serving director of the Department of Justice Witness Protection, Security and Benefits Program, he was fondly called “Sir PD,” PD being shorthand for Program Director. As PD, Atty. Dacera directed the operations of the DOJ WPSBP with knowledge...