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“Journalist killings point to policy of indifference”

Melinda Quintos de Jesus, executive director of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, writes about the continued journalist murders in the country in a column for the Philippine Daily Inquirer today. In her article “Journalist killings point to policy of indifference“, De Jesus writes: “There is not much...

When Governments Put Journalists in Jail

Across Asia, press freedom and economic prosperity don’t mix When Governments Put Journalists in Jail By Nathan Lee and Don Gil K. Carreon WHILE JOURNALISTS in Iraq and the Philippines struggle to dodge bullets, scores of other media practitioners across Asia continue to languish behind prison bars. Despite the...

Cyberspace: The New Combat Zone

Governments seek to control ‘citizen media’ Cyberspace: The new combat zone By Hector Bryant L. Macale There is a new arena in the fight for freedom of expression. This is cyberspace, a new zone where a conflict rages between those who promote free expression and those who seek to...

Covering a ‘Conspiracy’

A ‘plot’ fails, the government strikes back, and a reporter is in trouble Covering a ‘Conspiracy’ By Ellen Tordesillas A cardinal rule in news reporting is: never burn your sources. Yet that was precisely what Time magazine did to Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim and businessman Pastor Saycon in its...

Palawan journalist killed

Barely a month after a receiving death threat, a hard-hitting radio commentator was shot dead last May 22 in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, 586 kilometers south of Manila. Fernando “Dong” Batul, a radio journalist working Palawan-based radio station dyPR, was killed early morning by two unidentified gunmen, who shot him...

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...

Photo-journalist killed in Metro Manila

A Manila-based photojournalist was shot dead by unidentified men on 16 May in Caloocan City, just north of Manila. Albert Orsolino, 43, a photojournalist working for the Manila-based tabloid Saksi Ngayon (Witness Today), died from a lone gunshot wound after two unidentified men shot his car several times at...

Tabloid reporter killed

On the eve of this year’s World Press Freedom Day (03 May) celebration, a provincial tabloid columnist was gunned down by unidentified men in Mandaluyong City, just east of Manila. Nicolas Cervantes, a columnist of Surigao Daily and several other local papers in Mindanao (about 400 nautical miles from...

An Uneasy Peace: Media and government continue to eye each other with suspicion

Media and government continue to eye each other with suspicion An Uneasy Peace By Nathan J. Lee More than a month after Presidential Proclamation 1017 was lifted, journalists remain restive and worried. “Things have gotten more tense for the media despite the lifting of 1017 because of the series...

Government and the Business of Media

By Jose L. Pavia When government runs media, it is in effect saying that the best way to tell the story of government is for it to do the telling. And, given the reach and power of media, obvious is the choice for it in getting the story told....