March 19, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the harassment being perpetrated by Gumaca Quezon Mayor Erwin Caralian and his brother, Vice Mayor El Chor Caralian against Radyo Natin Gumaca. Radyo Natin Operations Manager Mitch Hernando...
Statement of Journalists and Media Organizations on List of Alleged “Narco Politicians”7 March 2019WE, JOURNALISTS AND MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS, express grave concern about the likely breach of professional ethics and adverse legal implications of the publication and...
Feb. 27, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines hails the legal victory won by former talents of broadcast giant GMA network who the Court of Appeals upheld as regular workers. We congratulate our colleagues in the Talents Association of GMA for...
February 22, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines deplores the inclusion of our member and former director Cong Corrales, his wife and son in an anonymous list naming alleged members of the Communist Party of the Philippines in Cagayan de Oro. The...
Feb. 18, 2019The government’s persecution of Maria Ressa and Rappler, the latest of which is the Department of Justice’s brazen perversion of the law to allow their prosecution for cyber libel, underscores the urgent need to decriminalize the offense.It is bad enough...
Feb. 17, 2019 The decision of Philstar.com to take down the 2002 article "Influential businessman eyed in ex-councilor's slay" is an inevitable consequence of this government’s, through the Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation, twisting the...
Feb. 13, 2019 The arrest Rappler CEO Maria Ressa on the clearly manipulated charge of cyber libel is a shameless act of persecution by a bully government. It is clear that the Department of Justice perverted the law by charging Maria for an offense allegedly committed...
Feb. 6, 2019 For more than half a month now, the alternative news website Bulatlat has been subjected to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks aimed at bringing it down. The first series of attacks lasted from January 19 to 31. The second wave came on February...
It is extremely unfortunate, though not surprising, that the Department of Justice has approved the filing of a cyber libel case against Rappler and its CEO Maria Ressa and former researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. While we are confident that Rappler can competently...