On November 23, 2009, 58 people, 32 of them journalists, were brutally murdered in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao. But almost 10 years after, not a single conviction has been handed to the mastermind of the massacre, members of the powerful Ampatuan clan, who plotted and...
Feb. 9, 2019On Friday, February 8, 2019, the website of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines become briefly unavailable twice after being subjected to a distributed denial of service attack.According to our digital security partners, the two attacks...
Feb. 6, 2019 For more than half a month now, the alternative news website Bulatlat has been subjected to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks aimed at bringing it down. The first series of attacks lasted from January 19 to 31. The second wave came on February...
It is extremely unfortunate, though not surprising, that the Department of Justice has approved the filing of a cyber libel case against Rappler and its CEO Maria Ressa and former researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. While we are confident that Rappler can competently...
Feb. 2, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines protests House Resolution 2467, which will require majority consent before lawmakers’ statements of assets, liabilities and net worth can be accessed. We find it ironic that a document meant to help...
In a bid to be more efficient and effective in responding to continued attacks on media practitioners, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has strengthened and expanded its regional safety offices throughout the country. As the country heads...
Jan. 24, 2019 On this day eight years ago, environmentalist, good governance advocate and broadcaster Gerardo "Doc Gerry" Ortega was shot dead in an ukay-ukay shop in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.Eight years after, justice remains elusive for Doc Gerry and his...
Jan. 10, 2019A broadcaster was found dead in a massage parlor in Sorsogon City with initial reports indicating he may have been the victim of foul play.Community news outfit BicolToday.com said John Michael "Jelai" Decano, the Sorsogon City reporter of Casiguran-based...
Jan. 9, 2019 When a number of tabloids came out on January 7 with totally false banner stories on the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines’ supposed links to the Communist Party of the Philippines, we held back from voicing our suspicions of who was behind...