We will not surrender our freedomsToday, 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.Read More Covering the PandemicRead more Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic Radio commentator slain in Davao del Sur A hard-hitting broadcaster was gunned down by unidentified men past 1:30 p.m. Tuesday (18 July, Manila time) in Digos City, Davao del Sur, around 680 kilometers south of Manila. Armando “Rachman” Pace, 51, a block timer for radio station dxDS, was waylaid by two men on a motorcycle along... Two part-time journalists slain in Kidapawan Two peace advocates, also working as part-time journalists, were gunned down by unidentified men around 5 p.m. Monday (19 June) in Kidapawan City, around 850 kilometers south of Manila. George Vigo, a contributor of the Union of Catholic Asian News, and his wife, Maricel Alave-Vigo, host of dxND Radio... Batul, Third Journalist Killed in 40-Day Period — FFFJ As we prepare to bury yet another colleague felled by bullets, we are at the same time alarmed that Palawan radio commentator Fernando ‘Dong’ Batul, was the third victim in just a span of 40 days, to be killed because of his work as a journalist. The popular Palawan... “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... « Previous1…424344454647Next »
