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Today, Independence Day, we renew our pledge to serve the people, to continue speaking truth to power, and to guard and defend freedom of the press and of expression from all threats.

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QC court convicts Baguio-based journo of cyber libel


CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A Quezon City court convicted Baguio-based journalist and Rappler correspondent Frank Cimatu of cyber libel on December 13 over a 2017 Facebook post that the court said accused then Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Emmanuel “Manny” Piñol of corruption.

PH Impunity and Government’s Denial: Unnecessary response to the killing of journalists and other HRVs


Impunity persists because it is a culture rooted in conditions that have not been addressed. Impunity has revealed that the laws and the conduct of government are no longer based on justice and its related principles of truth. 

FMFA STATEMENT  IN SOLIDARITY WITH BULATLAT AND PINOY WEEKLY


THE undersigned journalists, media organizations and advocacy groups unequivocally condemn the government’s blocking of access to the websites of media outlets Bulatlat and Pinoy Weekly and of other organizations on the claim that these are “affiliated to and are supporting terrorists and terrorist organizations.”

SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER, KEEP POWER IN CHECK!


World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2018 Manila, Philippines  A Report by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), Philippine Press Institute (PPI), and Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ)   RODRIGO R. Duterte’s presidency has altered and controlled the...

The Media and the Duterte Presidency: Impunity Acute and Benign, Fettered Flow of information


by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism     THE PRESS in the Philippines has been described to be among the freest in Asia if not in the world, robust, almost rambunctious in...

Tabloid Columnist Gunned Down in Masbate


  CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Two unidentified men on a motorcycle shot dead a columnist for Remate, Joaquin Briones, in Milagros, Masbate around 8 a.m. on March 13. He was also a former radio commentator.  Remate, a national tabloid in Filipino, is published in Manila. If proven work-related, the killing is...

Cotabato Radio Blocktimer Shot Dead


  CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A radio blocktimer, who was also a close-in aide of Mayor Russel Abonado of M’lang, Cotabato, was fatally shot in this town by unidentified suspects on February 1. Cotabato is 1,225 kilometers south of Manila. Marlon Muyco was riding a motorcycle on his way home with...

Resigned Broadcaster Killed in Ilocos Sur


  CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Unidentified men riding a motorcycle shot Mario Contaoi who has been identified by different reports as a volunteer reporter, program anchor, as well as a university professor and beach owner on 6 January 2017, in Magsingal town, Ilocos Sur, a province 370 kilometers north of Manila....

Publisher-columnist Shot in Catanduanes; First Journalist Killed Under Duterte


  CMFR/ PHILIPPINES – An unidentified gunman shot the publisher-columnist of a two-week old community newspaper in Catanduanes on 19 December 2016. His death is the first media killing under the watch of President Rodrigo Duterte. It is also the first journalist killing in Catanduanes and the eighth in...

Former Mayor Convicted for 2004 Killing of Broadcaster


  CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The Cebu City court convicted of homicide on 10 August 2016 a former mayor of the municipality of Lezo in Aklan accused of killing  broadcaster Herson Hinolan in 2004. Aklan is approximately 461 kilometers south of Manila. Branch 16 Judge Sylva Aguirre-Paderanga of the Regional Trial...

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