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Palace Spokesperson berates reporter during live broadcast

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque berated a reporter during a televised media briefing for her supposedly misleading report on his statement on mass testing as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. During a May 19 press briefing, Roque accused CNN reporter Triciah Terada of failing to report accurately...

Radio station in Nueva Ecija harassed by local government

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — Radyo Natin Guimba (RNG) in Nueva Ecija and its reporters have been receiving threats and other forms of harassment from the local government according to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP). Nueva Ecija is 131 kilometers south of Manila. In a statement, NUJP said...

Rappler reporter removed from NCRPO messaging group

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — A Rappler reporter was removed from the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) messaging group after the online news organization published the story on NCRPPO chief Major General Debold Sinas’ birthday celebration inside Camp Bagong Diwa on May 8 which violated quarantine protocols. NCRPO’s public information officer...

Government anti-communist task force posts propaganda against ABS-CBN, Rappler’s Maria Ressa

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), the government’s anti-communist task force, published social media posts on 9 May 2020 denying that the closure of ABS-CBN network is an attack on press freedom and accusing Rappler’s Maria Ressa of spreading fake news about...

Dumaguete broadcaster gets death threat

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Two days after a radio broadcaster was killed in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, a journalist in the same city received a death threat on 7 May 2020. Dumaguete City is 639.71 km south of Manila. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines reported that Roy August...

ABS-CBN goes off air following NTC’s cease and desist order

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — The country’s biggest broadcast network, ABS-CBN, ceased its radio and television operations nationwide on 5 May 2020, in compliance with an order from the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), which reneged on its earlier commitment to provide the network with a provisional license. The NTC issued a cease...

Dumaguete radio broadcaster shot dead

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A radio broadcaster was gunned down and killed by still unidentified assailants in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental on 5 May 2020. Dumaguete City is 639.71 km south of Manila. The attack happened two days after the celebration of World Press Freedom Day and an hour after ABS-CBN...

State of Media Freedom in PH

Introduction The period saw the long awaited decision from the trial of the accused of the massacre of 58 persons, including 32 journalists in Ampatuan, Maguindanao; promulgated at the end of nearly 10 years. But this high point did not lighten the dreary landscape of press freedom. It is...

Philippines Graphic website hacked

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The website of a Manila-based weekly news magazine was hacked by still unidentified parties on 18 April 2020. Clicking links to stories published by the Philippines Graphic redirects readers to a pornographic website, according to editor-in-chief Joel Pablo Salud. Salud told the National Union of Journalists of...

Student journalist harassed in Nueva Ecija

CMFR/PHILIPPINES — A student journalist was forced by barangay officials in Nueva Ecija on 6 April 2020 to publicly apologize after a heated exchange with his former teachers in Facebook over the government’s poor response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nueva Ecija is 140 kilometers north of Manila. Joshua Molo,...

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