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 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... 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,... 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... « Previous1…44454647Next »
