‘A well-orchestrated lie’: Detained Philippine journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio tells UN Geneva, June 27, 2025 - A handwritten letter by journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, who has been detained in the Philippines for more than five years without a conviction, was read out...
2025 Media Electoral Agenda
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Statement | Drop the charges against journalist Deo Montesclaros
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines stands in solidarity with freelance journalist Deo Montesclaros, whom the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group has accused before the Cagayan Provincial Prosecutor's Office of terrorist financing. Deo is a...
With META’s plan to abandon fact-checking, ‘truth’ is left to who can speak loudest
Meta's plan to abandon fact-checking, initially in the US but likely eventually across markets, removes another important guard rail against disinformation and misinformation on social media and will make it more difficult for users to sift through the noise online....
Statement | Congrats, Atom and MAD
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) welcomes the Quezon City Regional Trial Court's decision in favor of journalist Atom Araullo in his P2-million civil case against red-taggers Lorraine Badoy-Partosa and Jeffrey Celiz. Apart from the moral...
Timeline: Finding justice for Gerry Ortega
NUJP is publishing this timeline on the continuing search for justice for Gerry Ortega.
#FactsFirstPH: For 2022 elections, how will you fight for the truth?
Who will you vote for if you don’t have the facts? How many times have you been attacked online because you challenged a lie? You are not alone. “Without facts, you can’t have truth,” said Nobel laureate and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, who is spearheading a new...
An appeal to bring CH.2, DZMM, MOR, and CH.23 back on air
12 May 2020 The signing off of broadcast network ABS-CBN not only endangers the employment of its 11,000 workers but, just as important, if not more so, affects the lives of citizens as well. Government clearly trampled on freedom of the press and of expression when...
[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...