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(UPDATED) Radio anchor threatened over commentaries

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A Cagayan de Oro-based radio broadcaster received threatening SMS (text) messages last 14 May and 17 May 2011. Cagayan de Oro City is approximately 786 kilometers south... Read more

Tarlac-based journalists received death threats over corruption stories

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Three journalists said they received death threats after reporting alleged corruption in the construction of an expressway in Tarlac. Tarlac is a province approximately 107 kilometers from... Read more

Widow of slain journalist files charges against former governors, mayor

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – THE WIDOW of a Palawan radio broadcaster named two former provincial governors and a town mayor suspects in the 24 January 2011 killing of her husband. (Palawan... Read more

Attacks on journalists continue in the wake of second work-related killing

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Just days after the killing of Palawan-based radio broadcaster Gerardo Ortega, several attacks against journalists occurred in different parts of the Philippines. In Iloilo, a publisher-editor of... Read more

CMFR Philippine Press Freedom Report 2010 released

THE VICTORY of Benigno Simeon Aquino III in the 2010 presidential elections was widely expected to usher in a new era of governance. Aquino was also perceived as committed... Read more

Reporter warned of possible threat

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A local TV reporter received a warning from a concerned citizen of a possible threat to one of two TV news crews covering the Barangay (village) and... Read more

Reporter fears his being surveilled could be connected to massacre

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A journalist in General Santos City claims that unidentified men have been watching his house. General Santos City is a chartered city in the southernmost Philippine island... Read more

Broadcaster threatened over illegal gambling report

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A radio broadcaster received death threats on his mobile phone after reporting on illegal gambling in Cagayan De Oro City, Misamis Oriental. Misamis Oriental is a province... Read more

Broadcasters claim local official threatened them

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – A local official of Porac town, Pampanga allegedly threatened journalists over a story involving his business deals. Porac town is approximately 70.32 kilometers north of Manila. DwGV... Read more

Two journalists attacked after filing complaint against politician

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Two journalists from Cagayan de Oro survived an attack a few days after they filed a complaint against a local politician for allegedly mauling them a day... Read more