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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,...

Newsbreak editor gets death threat

It would seen that threats against journalists and freedom of expression are no longer confined to the provinces but has made its way to the capital. It is indeed an indication of the sad state of affairs even as it is another proof that the culture of impunity makes...

Radio station ordered closed for maligning local official

A mayor in a southern Philippine city ordered the closure of a local radio station, which had been criticizing him on-air. Mayor Jose Galario Jr. of Valencia City, Bukidnon, cancelled the business permit of Radio Mindanao Network’s station dxVR-FM on 25 July 2005. Galario said dxVR acting station manager...

Local journalist harassed, threatened after exposing governor’s anomalies

A correspondent based in Batangas, south of Manila, has been living in danger for more than three weeks now after her articles exposing corruption in the province angered Governor Armando Sanchez. Mei Magsino-Lubis, a correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer got a call from a police source last 8...

Local editor jailed for contempt

An editor of a local paper in Naga City, southeast of Manila, was sent to prison for indirect contempt last July 20. Jose Perez, editor-in-chief of the weekly Bicol Mail, was sentenced to a 90-day jail term and a P30, 000-fine (US$ 536) by Judge Felimon Montenegro of the...

CPJ story on the journalist killing in RP

An issue that is drawing global media attention to the Philippines is the high death toll of journalists in the country. In the past few months, we, at the CMFR, had been visited by the Reporters sans Frontieres (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists. We were even phoned...

Whitewashing the Esperat case

Is the Department of Justice (DOJ) aiding and abetting the guilty? The DOJ endorsed the dismissal of the case against the suspected masterminds in the 24 March 2005 slay of columnist Marlene Esperat, even as a court ruled its reinvestigation unauthorized. Riding on a controversial prosecutor’s findings of the...