![[Statement] AFP page red-tags journalists Bobby Coloma and Roel Landingin, others in post](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/142378086_10164667043375374_249572169114562390_o-400x250.jpg)
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...
![[Statement] LONG OVERDUE: Decriminalize libel now!](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/photo-by-Jire-Carreon-ABS-CBN-News-400x250.jpg)
The latest cyber libel charge against Rappler CEO Maria Ressa, her third, and this time with reporter Rambo Talabong as co-accused, underscores the long-overdue need to decriminalize defamation given how our laws continue to be used more often than not to intimidate...
![[Statement] Bring back ABS-CBN, respect the people’s right to know](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/107555057_10163837488270374_2812348985181908258_o-400x250.jpg)
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines greets with cautious optimism the filing by Senate President Vicente Sotto III of a bill seeking to grant ABS-CBN a fresh franchise that would bring back the network on air. We likewise welcome the news that...
![[SIGN-ON STATEMENT] An assault on the foundations of democracy](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/free-lady-ann-salem_nujp-400x250.jpg)
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...
![[Statement] State security flout the law by abetting Celiz’s lies](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot-113-400x250.png)
There is a video on YouTube that features Jeffrey Celiz, the so-called "Ka Eric" touted as the "star witness" of the National Task Fore to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, in which he accuses National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Director and past...
![[Statement] On the termination of ABS-CBN’s YouTube channels](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1604367458-Screen-Shot-2020-11-03-at-9.10.45-AM-546-400x250.png)
At around 7:30 am on Tuesday, November 3, YouTube terminated the ABS-CBN News and ANC channels over some yet unspecified violations of the video sharing site's terms of service. By afternoon, they had been restored even as the Philippine Star's Janvic Mateo reported...
![[Statement] Rolly is a dreadful lesson on press freedom](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/wp-cover-400x250.png)
Nothing has better illustrated the great disservice to the nation the government, particularly the House, has wrought through the shutting down of ABS-CBN than Super Typhoon Rolly's deadly rampage through the Bicol region. This is not to denigrate the usual yeoman's...
![[Statement] Persistent impunity is society’s, not just media’s, loss](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/signal-2020-11-02-131324-400x250.jpeg)
November 2 is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. And, of course, this day continues to remind us of how deeply entrenched the culture of impunity is in the Philippines, where 189 journalists have been murdered since 1986 with hardly...
![[Statement] NUJP TO PARLADE: The burden of proof is on the accuser](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screenshot-102-400x250.png)
In an October 26 appearance on One News' The Chiefs. Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., spokesman of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, as usual without proffering any proof, claimed communist rebels have "infiltrated lahat ng media outfit...