The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines calls on the local government of Guimba, Nueva Ecija, to immediately stop harassing Radyo Natin Guimba and its staff and preventing them from covering events of public interest in the municipality. We have received...
[Statement] NUJP to Roque: You owe CNN and Triciah Terada an apology
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque owes CNN Philippines and its reporter Triciah Terada an apology for his boorish and, as it turned out, misbegotten tirade. Roque took exception to a CNN tweet on Monday, May 18, that said he admitted that the government has no...
[Statement] Appeal vs presenting suspects not yet formally charged
The case of teacher Ronnel Mas has, for unfortunate reasons, placed media in the spotlight. This is because, while the prosecutor ruled that his warrantless arrest by the National Bureau of Investigation was invalid, this was subsequently “cured” by what was described...
[Press Release] Asian media unions protest ABS-CBN closure
Media unions from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Hong Kong have protested the closure of broadcast network ASB-CBN and called on the Duterte administration "to act swiftly to ensure that Congress renews the network’s license and restore ABS-CBN to the air." In their...
[Statement] NUJP denounces red-tagging of ex-chair Paraan
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) condemns the malicious and deplorable use of photographs of the first all-women media safety training held in the Philippines to red-tag our former chairperson, colleagues and the NUJP. A social media post by...
STATEMENT CONDEMNING NTF-ELCAC’S BLACK PROPAGANDA AGAINST ABS-CBN AND MARIA RESSA
10 May 2020 We, media groups, news outfits, journalists, and academics, condemn the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) for a black propaganda offensive on social media against ABS-CBN and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa. These Facebook...
[Statement] Justice for Rex Cornelio, 16th journalist slain under Duterte
May 6, 2020 The National Union of Journalists demands that authorities get to the bottom of the murder in Dumaguete City of Cornelio Pepino, more popularly known as Rex Cornelio, of dyMD Energy 93.7 FM, who was gunned down Tuesday night, May 5, 2020 as he headed home...
[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...
[Statement] World Press Freedom Day: Let us remain free
3 May 2020 As in years past, we observe World Press Freedom Day more for the lack than the reality. Today, we see the existing space for freedom of the press and of expression narrow even more not only because of the inevitable changes in the way we do things but...