August 11, 2019 The National Union of Journalists decries the increasing incidence of what can only be described as targeted attacks on members of the critical media. Recently, our Bacolod chapter chairperson, Marchel Espina, was tailed by a suspicious motorcycle...
Statement
[PRESS STATEMENT] NUJP calls on journalists to organize into unions and defend press freedom amid continuing threats against media workers.
June 26, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the harassment committed by a lone gunman against five Bulacan-based journalists who were on their way home to Malolos, Bulacan, around 3:00 in the afternoon of June 21, 2019, Friday....
Take care of ALL workers’ safety— NUJP to media industry
25 June 2019 It is unfortunate - but not surprising - that it has to take the loss of an icon to highlight the continuing lack of concern for the safety and welfare of workers in the media industry, both in news and entertainment.Could the accident that felled Eddie...
NUJP lauds 1,000 artists’ call to renew ABS-CBN franchise
19 June 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines hails and stands fully in support of the call by close to 1,000 actors, directors, writers, musicians, composers, cinematographers and other members of the television and film industry to the incoming...
Ban on Amatz: Unconstitutional and stupid
19 June 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines denounces the ban ordered by the National Telecommunications Commission on Shanti Dope’s rap piece, “Amatz,” on the request of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. At the same time, we deplore the...
PNP’s ‘mistaken identity’ abduction of journo inexcusable
10 June 2019 Let us call a spade a spade. The supposed "arrest" on Sunday of Davao Today columnist Fidelina Margarita Valle in Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental was not a lawful operation but a criminal abduction of a journalist. Valle, a veteran community journalist and...
NUJP Davao City Chapter statement on the arrest of journalist Margarita Valle
The National Union of Journalist in the Philippines (NUJP) - Davao Chapter strongly condemns the arrest and calls for the immediate surface of journalist Margarita “Ging” Valle, a columnist of Davaotoday.com. Valle remains incommunicado after she was nabbed on...
No excuse for Tulfo’s execrable behavior
3 June 2019 There can be no excuse for Erwin Tulfo's utter lack of ethics and scruples in publicly insulting Secretary Rolando Bautista simply for not being able to immediately answer his demand for an interview. No, this has nothing to do with Bautista, for Tulfo's...
NUJP salutes CDO colleagues’ unity in defense of press freedom
28 May 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines hails our colleagues in Cagayan de Oro for their show of unity against unrelenting efforts to suppress freedom of the press and of expression. When unidentified persons draped a black streamer naming...