NUJP is publishing this timeline on the continuing search for justice for Gerry Ortega.
Diarista 2021
NUJP welcomes and supports proposed Human Rights Defenders Protection Act
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, the largest organization of Filipino journalists, welcomes and supports the proposed Human Rights Defenders Protection Act. The consolidated bills in the Lower House strengthens the commitment and obligations of...
Comments on Media Workers’ Welfare bills before the Senate labor committee
Legislation to ensure just compensation and working conditions for journalists and media workers is as timely now as it ever has been for the profession and while the media prides itself on being a self-regulating profession, this has also made it vulnerable to unfair...
Baguio journalists revive local NUJP chapter
After five years on hiatus, journalists gathered in an online assembly in July 2021 to revitalize the Baguio chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.
Lawfare as a weapon of intimidation against the Philippine media
MANILA — In the first few weeks of the hard lockdown due to COVID-19 in 2020, local community media outfit Radyo Natin Guimba reported on the long queue of farmers waiting for aid outside the municipal office of Guimba, Nueva Ecija. Some of the residents seen in the...
State of media 2021: Coming together under crisis conditions
Amid the grim situation, Filipino journalists and media workers have not been taking the attacks sitting down.
NUJP reconvenes Cebu chapter
BACOLOD CITY — The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has reconvened its Cebu chapter to address and thwart attacks on the local press. Members of the national directorate led the chapter’s general assembly on July 7 that saw the attendance of 10...
Weathering the financial storm
Weathering the financial storm by Jhoanna BallaranThere is no theme more suitable to describe what the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has gone through financially in the past three years than the theme of our 11th Congress: “Braving the Storm,...
Philippine press freedom is worth fighting for: ABS-CBN shutdown reignites the voices of journalists
Philippine press freedom is worth fighting for: ABS-CBN shutdown reignites the voices of journalists by Stanley Buenafe Gajete, NUJP National Capital Region chapterMANILA — Just two days after the celebration of World Press Freedom Day, the Philippine government...