This is what the Duterte government, through its National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, has mounted by red-tagging not only the alternative media but even critical segments of the dominant media. The baseless accusations against alternative media...
NUJP launches Ampatuan Massacre 10th anniversary campaign
July 25, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) has launched its digital campaign commemorating the upcoming 10th anniversary of the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan massacre, which claimed the lives of 58 persons, 32 of them media workers. In...
[Statement] Malacañang’s new matrix a ‘piece of unadulterated crap’
May 8, 2019 The NUJP refuses to dignify such a piece of unadulterated crap as the new "matrix" presented by Sal Panelo apparently expands on the earlier oust-Duterte canard and now purports to link more people and groups like us to Rodel Jayme. At best, this is yet...
NUJP condemns harassment of Gumaca radio station
March 19, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the harassment being perpetrated by Gumaca Quezon Mayor Erwin Caralian and his brother, Vice Mayor El Chor Caralian against Radyo Natin Gumaca. Radyo Natin Operations Manager Mitch Hernando...
ALERT: Gumaca radio station manager harassed by mayor
March 18, 2019 Radyo Natin Gumaca Station Manager Mitch Hernando turned to social media on Saturday, March 16, to express her outrage her over alleged harassments by Mayor Erwin Caralian and threat to close the station affiliated with MBC. Hernando narrated that she...
Gov’t, media can’t play fast, loose with due process and rule of law
Statement of Journalists and Media Organizations on List of Alleged “Narco Politicians”7 March 2019WE, JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS, express grave concern about the likely breach of professional ethics and adverse legal implications of the publication and...
NUJP hails TAG Court of Appeals win
Feb. 27, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines hails the legal victory won by former talents of broadcast giant GMA network who the Court of Appeals upheld as regular workers. We congratulate our colleagues in the Talents Association of GMA for...
RED TAGGING: Hands off NUJP-Cagayan de Oro member Cong Corrales and family
February 22, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines deplores the inclusion of our member and former director Cong Corrales, his wife and son in an anonymous list naming alleged members of the Communist Party of the Philippines in Cagayan de Oro. The...
Persecution of Rappler underscores need to decriminalize libel NOW
Feb. 18, 2019The government’s persecution of Maria Ressa and Rappler, the latest of which is the Department of Justice’s brazen perversion of the law to allow their prosecution for cyber libel, underscores the urgent need to decriminalize the offense.It is bad enough...