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Bataan columnist shot dead

Graciano Aquino, a columnist for a Central Luzon newspaper, was shot and killed at close range by unidentified suspects last 21 January inside a cockpit arena in Morong town, Bataan. Senior Supt. Hernando Zafra, head of Bataan police, said that the local communist group, Rebolusyonaryong Hukbong Bayan (RHB), could...

Cebu photojourn’s killer gets death

A Cebu judge ordered the death penalty for the convicted killer of Allan Dizon, a photojournalist who worked for The Freeman and Banat News last 19 January. Cebu City Regional Trial Court Branch 5 Judge Ireneo Lee Gako Jr. handed down the death sentence to Edgar Belandres, who was...

Cebu journalist slay suspect identified

Local police recently claimed they have traced the mastermind behind the killing of journalist George Benaojan in Talisay City, Cebu, 600 kilometers south of Manila. In a statement released to the media last 07 December, provincial director Vicente Loot bared that the local investigators have pinpointed the alleged brain...

Cebu radioman gunned down

A local radio journalist was fatally shot by an unidentified man late last night (01 December) in Talisay City, Cebu, around 580 kilometers south of Manila. George Benaojan, 27 (28 in other reports), a reporter of radio station dyDD, died at around midnight at a local hospital barely three...

Journalist-killer gets jailed for life

Finally, a decisive victory for press freedom. The quest for justice in the killing of print, radio, and televisionjournalist Edgar Damalerio, came to a favorable conclusion as the local court convicted the scribe’s gunman, Guillermo Wapile, to life sentence in Cebu City on 29 November 2005 afternoon. Damalerio’s widow,...

Two journalists shot down

In just a span of 60 hours, two journalists were gunned down in separate incidents in southern Luzon over the weekend. Robert Ramos, tabloid reporter, and Ricardo Uy, a radio commentator and party-list leader, were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the Laguna and Sorsogon provinces, last 20 and...

Cebu journalists face libel suit

Five Cebu-based journalists are facing libel charges for publishing stories implicating a municipal mayor as the mastermind of the P94-million bank robbery in Bogo, northern part of Cebu. Sun.Star Cebu editor-in-chief Pachico Seares, managing editor for news Isolde Amante, news editor Maria Carmel Geverola and reporters Mia Abellana and...

Photojournalist held by military

After mistaking him for a rebel, a photojournalist working for a national daily was held by local police and military last 4 October in Tarlac City, around 130 kilometers north of Manila. Rene Dilan, a photographer of The Manila Times, was responding to an earlier tip from an unnamed...

CMFR press conference on media killings

The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility will be holding a press conference on its analytical study of the media killings on Monday, 05 September, 11 am at the AIM Conference Center (Benavides cor. Trasierra Sts., Makati CBD).

Phil Star correspondent receives threat

Three allegedly drug-crazed men hurled stones and tried to barge into the houseof a provincial journalist working for a national daily, just past midnightlast 11 August in Butuan City, around 800 kilometers southeast of Manila. Ben Serrano, a correspondent for the Manila-based The Philippine Star, emergedunscathed from the attack,...