WATCH. While waiting for the release of Lumad teacher Chad Booc, police allow other media outlets inside the PRO-7 except Rappler, calling us a fake news outlet. Rappler has extensively covered the Lumad arrests, reaching out to police for comments on...
[Alert] Former NUJP Capiz chair shot dead
(Screenshot from Bombo Radyo Roxas) Pilar, Capiz administrator John Heredia, a longtime member of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, was shot dead by motorcycle-riding gunmen at Barangay Lawa-an, Roxas City Sunday afternoon, May 2. The victim...
[Alert] A day before World Press Freedom Day, police raids house of campus journalist in Bicol
At around 4 a.m. today, May 2, around 40 elements of PNP-CIDG raided the house of student journalist Justine Mesias, in Daraga, Albay. Mesias is senior editor of college publication Cassipi Online of Bicol University and spokesperson of Youth Act Now Against Tyranny...
[Alert] Radio announcer shot dead in Tagbilaran City
(Photo credit: The Bohol Chronicle) A popular disc jockey of Kiss FM and an event host was shot dead inside Room 8 of Backpackers' Inn around 10 p.m. March 27, in Mansasa, Tagbilaran City, Bohol. Initial police report said Rizalino 'Inday Rufing' Torralba, 45,...
[Statement] Those who threaten violence have already lost the argument
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines stands with our colleagues from the campus publications of the University of the Philippines and denounces the cowards who have threatened them with violence. On Monday, March 1, the Tinig ng Plaridel,...
[Statement] Bukidnon execs urged to go after red-tagging page
The National Union ofJournalists of the Philippines denounces the people behind the Facebook page "Kamatooran" for red-tagging us and our former director Cong Corrales, associate editor of Cagayan de Oro's Gold Star Daily. This page, which names itself "truth"...
[Statement] Parlade’s threat vs Inquirer.net’s Torres-Tupas proves peril of ATL
Not even a week since oral arguments on the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 started and the spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict has flexed his muscles and shown precisely the behavior that petitioners against the draconian law have...
[Statement] AFP page red-tags journalists Bobby Coloma and Roel Landingin, others in post
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the malicious red-tagging of two respected colleagues, Roberto "Bobby" Coloma, the bureau chief for Singapore and Malaysia of Agence France Presse, and business and economic journalist Roel Landingin, who...
[Alert] Court clears 6 journos of libel raps filed by Camarines Norte gov, ex-board member
A court in Camarines Norte dismissed several libel cases filed against six journalists by Governor Edgardo Tallado and former provincial board member Rodolfo Gache. In open court, Judge Winston Racoma of Regional Trial Court Branch 39 cited the "lack of...