Masked Media Campaign won 2 Golds, a Silver and a Bronze at APAC Tambuli Awards, a pioneer global award show that recognizes effective brands with purpose. MANILA — It’s another win for press freedom as advertising company Ace Saatchi & Saatchi took home several...
Newly elected Federation of Asia-Pacific Journalists (FAPaJ) executive committee (Photo by Jonathan De Santos) MANILA — Asia Pacific delegates of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) formed a new regional group during the organization’s 31st World...
May 23, 2022 Ferdinand Marcos Jr. President-elect Republic of the Philippines Malacañang Palace San Miguel, Manila Philippines Via email: op@president.gov.ph Dear President-elect Marcos: As you prepare to assume the presidency of the Philippines, the Committee to...
May 20, 2022 | JOS MIDAS BARTMAN National leaders who attack independent media attract most of the attention. But powerful authoritarian subnational elites, and a local political milieu that all but guarantees them impunity, pose the deadliest threat to journalists....
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Press freedom and human rights groups have long held that impunity in attacks against journalists emboldens those who seek to silence the critical press and put the entire media community at greater risk. In a report released late last year UNESCO stressed that...
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As we mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists today, we remember our fallen colleagues and continue to hope for justice for them. We are hopeful for a swift resolution of the investigation into the killing of Orlando "Dondon" Dinoy in...
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Attorney Harry Roque, the Philippine press has been under siege under your principal for the last five years, and if you refuse to listen to the journalists who you used to represent, just ask your former colleagues in the human rights community. You are denying...
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(Photo credit: Rappler.com) The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines congratulates fellow journalist Maria Ressa for winning the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 with Dmitry Muratov of Novaja Gazeta in Russia. Ressa, CEO and president of Rappler, is the first...
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The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines stands with our member and colleague Margarita Valle as she seeks justice for her wrongful arrest at the Laguindingan airport in 2019. After being held incognito for hours on what police would later say was a case...