22 March 2020 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines appeals to media houses to look to the needs of their employees as they scale down operations during the health crisis. While we understand that media companies, like all businesses, are likely to take...
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[Joint Statement] PCOO Accreditation: Unnecessary, Unreasonable, Unconstitutional
We, media organizations, journalists, press freedom advocates and academics, raise our collective voice and declare our opposition to government requiring journalists to secure accreditation from the Presidential Communications Operations Office to be exempted from...
[Statement] NUJP statement on PCOO accreditation
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) believes that the media's role in the ongoing COVID-19 emergency is vital in informing both the government and the people on the real situation on the ground and useful in making the right decisions. The...
[Statement] Red tagging and vilification will not cow the independent media
The National Union of Journalists denounces the renewed red tagging in Cagayan do Oro of journalists by cowards who hide behind anonymity to spread their calumny. The latest round of false accusations has grown from the handful of local journalists - NUJP-CDO chair...
[Statement] NUJP hails GMA workers’ victory
The National Union of Journalists hails the Court of Appeals decision ordering the GMA network to reinstate, with no loss of seniority rights, and with full back wages and benefits, 51 regular employees who had been found illegally terminated. We congratulate the...
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[Statement] Poe to receive 200K signatures for ABS-CBN franchise renewal
The NUJP today is submitting copies of signed petitions supporting the renewal of ABS-CBN'S broadcast franchise to Senate Committee on Public Services chairperson Sen. Grace Poe. The committee is set to conduct a hearing on the network's franchise today. The petitions...
[Statement] Pullout of film from Sinag is censorship
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines decries the pullout of the film "Walang Kasarian Ang Digmaang Bayan" from the 2020 Sinag Maynila Film Festival and support director Jay Altarejos' demand for the organizers to come clean about the real reason for...
[Statement] Gag order petition meant to suppress the truth
The petition for a gag order filed by Solicitor General Jose Calida is an obvious attempt to silence all voices opposed to this government's push to shut down ABS-CBN.This is evident in Calida's asking the high court to gag "parties and persons acting on (ABS-CBN's)...
[Statement] On Robin Padilla’s challenge
The NUJP is one with Mr. Robin Padilla in deploring labor only contracting. But if in issuing such challenge he means to agree with the current moves to shut an entire media company down, that is when we disagree.Doing so may be likened to sinking an entire ship,...