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...
[Statement] NUJP decries Calida’s warning to NTC
3 May 2020 #NoToABSCBNShutdown The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the statement by the Office of the Solicitor General warning the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) against granting ABS-CBN a provisional authority (PA) to continue...
[Statement] Release the Iloilo community journalists
2 May 2020 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) calls for the release and condemns the arrest of the four community journalists and three other media volunteers by the Iloilo City PNP yesterday, May 1, in connection with the planned caravan to...
National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Baguio-Benguet Statement on attacks to Northern Dispatch
2 May 2020 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Baguio-Benguet chapter condemns the cyber-attack on Northern Dispatch as the news organization faces a continued harassment while amplifying the voice of the poor and the marginalized. On April 28, the...