10 May 2020 We, media groups, news outfits, journalists, and academics, condemn the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) for a black propaganda offensive on social media against ABS-CBN and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa. These Facebook...
[Alert] Dumaguete journalist gets death threat
8 May 2020 A journalist based in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental received a death threat Thursday evening, May 7, 2020, just two days after a colleague was murdered. Roy August Bustillo, anchor and reporter of Power 91 dyGB FM and correspondent for CNN Philippines,...
[Statement] Justice for Rex Cornelio, 16th journalist slain under Duterte
May 6, 2020 The National Union of Journalists demands that authorities get to the bottom of the murder in Dumaguete City of Cornelio Pepino, more popularly known as Rex Cornelio, of dyMD Energy 93.7 FM, who was gunned down Tuesday night, May 5, 2020 as he headed home...
[Statement] #NoDeadAir: Resist all assaults on freedom of the press and expression
5 May 2020 #NoToABSCBNShutdown This is the kind of government we have. Even as our people battle a deadly pandemic, it carries out an underhanded assault on freedom of the press and of expression through a cease and desist order issued by the National...
[Alert] Radio reporter shot dead in Dumaguete City
5 May 2020 A reporter of a community radio station in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental was shot dead on Tuesday night, May 5, 2020. Police said Cornelio Pepino, 48, popularly known as Rex Cornelio, of dyMD Energy 93.7 FM was riding home with his wife on a motorcycle...
It’s World Press Freedom Day.
We invite you to use any of these posters produced by our friends in International Media Support in a number of our national languages as your profile pictures. Please use #WorldPressFreedomDay And if you could tag IMS in your post, we'd be grateful Maraming...
[Statement] World Press Freedom Day: Let us remain free
3 May 2020 As in years past, we observe World Press Freedom Day more for the lack than the reality. Today, we see the existing space for freedom of the press and of expression narrow even more not only because of the inevitable changes in the way we do things but...
[Statement] NUJP decries Calida’s warning to NTC
3 May 2020 #NoToABSCBNShutdown The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the statement by the Office of the Solicitor General warning the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) against granting ABS-CBN a provisional authority (PA) to continue...
[Statement] Release the Iloilo community journalists
2 May 2020 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) calls for the release and condemns the arrest of the four community journalists and three other media volunteers by the Iloilo City PNP yesterday, May 1, in connection with the planned caravan to...