We survived! by Nonoy EspinaCongratulations, everyone. WE SURVIVED! In my more than three decades with our Union, never have I seen and experienced the levels of vilification and threat against the organization, its officers and members as during this administration....
After layoffs, Bacolod journalists start digital news platform by Marchel P. Espina, NUJP Bacolod chapterBACOLOD CITY — “I really don’t know,” this was all I could muster when Romeo Subaldo, the news chief then of ABS-CBN Bacolod, asked me what I will do after our...
Alternative and campus press bear brunt of, endure government attacks by Raymund B. VillanuevaMANILA — The alternative media community and the campus press in the Philippines are being subjected to unrelenting attacks on press freedom by Duterte government as much as,...
Signing against the sign by Raymund B. VillanuevaMANILA — It was the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002 that first ordered that journalists act as one of the police's witnesses in their anti-illegal drugs operations. Strong opposition from media groups,...
Media unionism and the birth of the NUJP by Joel C. ParedesMANILA — During the dark days of Martial Law, our late colleague Antonio Ma. Nieva was considered “dangerous” — and a “communist” — among the ranks of the conservative Philippine press. Together with a handful...
How COVID-19 attacked journalists' resilience by Alyssa Mae Clarin, NUJP Bulatlat chapterMANILA — Between the low wages, the daily grind on the field, and many deadlines, journalism has never been a relaxing job. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to put the country...
![[Statement] Badoy’s words make her culpable for government’s crimes](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wp-cover4-1-400x250.png)
We are sorely tempted to dismiss Lorraine Badoy's hysteric attacks on Rappler for calling out her lies as signs of a mind coming unhinged from having to conjure up fiction after fiction almost daily. To do so, however, would be to give her a way out from her...
![[Statement] HAPPY BIRTHDAY ICY: No democracy keeps the innocent in jail](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Copy-of-A-day-a-month-or-a-year-of-delay-in-the-resolution-of-the-MAGUINDANAO-MASSACRE-CASE-will-not-only-deny-us-JUSTICE-but-will-deprive-every-victim-and-their-family-of-a-chance-at-REDEMPTION.-400x250.png)
Today, journalist Lady Ann Salem turns 36, still behind bars despite the dismissal of what were clearly false charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives. What democracy keeps the innocent behind bars while their persecutors are given free rein to...
![[Statement] Those who threaten violence have already lost the argument](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/wp-cover4-400x250.png)
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines stands with our colleagues from the campus publications of the University of the Philippines and denounces the cowards who have threatened them with violence. On Monday, March 1, the Tinig ng Plaridel,...