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Media Watch Groups Notes Increasing Intimidation, Shrinking Space for Free Press in PH

NEW YORK-based press freedom watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) found during their mission to the country last week that journalists in the Philippines are facing increasing levels of... Read more

FMA Digital Rights Camp 2019

FOUNDATION FOR Media Alternatives (FMA) is accepting applicants for a series of capacity-building and awareness-raising activities, including the Digital Rights Camp, to advance human rights in the Philippine digital... Read more

Pinoy Lensman Bags World Press Photo Award

FILIPINO PHOTOJOURNALIST Ezra Acayan won second prize in the World Press Photo Award for his photograph of a crime scene after an alleged drug personality was shot dead by... Read more

Reporting Grants for Women’s Stories

THE INTERNATIONAL Women’s Media Foundation’s (IWMF) Reporting Grants for Women’s Stories is accepting applications until April 21. Sponsored by the Secular Society, the IWMF’s Reporting Grants for Women’s Stories... Read more

CMFR Executive Director to receive Hildegarde Award for Print Journalism

CMFR EXECUTIVE Director Melinda Quintos De Jesus will receive this year’s Hildegarde Award for Print Journalism. Melinda Quintos De Jesus was among the women journalists who wrote critically of... Read more

Inquirer Names New Associate Publisher

PHILIPPINE DAILY Inquirer president and CEO Alexandra Prieto-Romualdez has appointed former Central Desk chief Juliet Labog-Javellana as the company’s new associate publisher. Javellana will be management’s senior representative in... Read more

Inquirer Appoints New Executive Editor, COO

PHILIPPINE DAILY Inquirer (PDI) Sunday Editor Joseph Voltaire “Volt” Contreras and Rudyard Arbolado have been appointed as the newspaper’s new executive editor and chief operating officer (COO), respectively. According... Read more

Fearless Cartoonist Jess Abrera Leaves Inquirer

AWARD-WINNING cartoonist and Philippine Daily Inquirer pioneer Jess Abrera Jr. left the Philippine Daily Inquirer on January 1, 2019 after 30 years in the newspaper. The cartoonist is known for his... Read more

Journalists, Including Rappler’s Ressa Named Time ‘Person of the Year’

JOURNALISTS FROM four countries including RapplerChief Executive Officer and Executive Editor Maria Ressa are Time Magazine’s 2018 “Person of the Year.” Time honored the Philippines’ Ressa together with Jamal Khashoggi,... Read more

NYU Carter Journalism Institute’s 2019 Reporting Award

THE NEW York University (NYU) Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute is accepting applications for the 2019 Reporting Award. The Institute welcomes applications from international journalists. However, the work... Read more