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Inquirer.net Removes Columnist’s Opinion Pieces (UPDATED)

CMFR/ PHILIPPINES – Online news site Inquirer.net has taken down the 2014 articles of its US-based columnist Rodel Rodis implicating Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III in the alleged cover-up... Read more

A Lukewarm Response to Charges, Silence from the Rest of Media

“DO NOT hesitate to attack or criticize me if I do wrong in my job. It is your duty.” President Rodrigo Duterte directed this statement to reporters... Read more

In the Philippines: Three Journalists Were Killed for Their Work in 2015

THE CENTER for Media Freedom and Responsibility takes exception to the statement in the 2015 Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) report on the killing of journalists worldwide that... Read more

Freelance journo harassed, threatened (UPDATED)

CMFR/ PHILIPPINES – A freelance journalist told CMFR that she has been threatened and harassed for over a year for reasons that she suspects are work-related. Read more

Electric supplier files PHP20M suit against columnist

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – The power supplier for the Central Negros Electric Cooperative filed a PHP20-million libel suit against a columnist of a local newspaper last 5 March 2015. Read more

Accused in 2009 killing of radio reporter convicted

A trial court found guilty one of two persons accused in the 2010 murder of a radio reporter in Nabua town, Camarines Sur last 5 February 2015. It was... Read more

Broadcaster dies 10 years after attack that left him paralyzed

Ten years after surviving an attack that left him paralyzed from the waist down, a Mindanao broadcaster died last 15 January 2015 in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato. Read more

Journalist killed in Cambodia over illegal logging

CMFR/Philippines – A journalist in the Kratie province of Cambodia was shot dead on 12 October 2014 while he was documenting illegal logging, according to the Cambodian Center for... Read more

International Crisis

Egyptian court convicts journalists for covering protests An Egyptian court sentenced on 23 June 2014 three Al Jazeera journalists–Australian Peter Geste, Cairo bureau chief Canadian-Egyptian Mohamad Fahmy and producer... Read more

International Crisis

Martial law in Thailand targets media The military in Thailand has issued orders limiting the content of news media outlets, closed down 14 television stations and an unspecified number... Read more