![[URGENT ALERT] Journalist arrested by police](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Eo3CkvXUcAEjBJG-400x250.jpg)
Journalist and Manila Today editor Lady Ann Salem was among those arrested in a wave of arrests conducted by the Philippine National Police (PNP) this morning. The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group of the PNP arrested Salem at her house in Mandaluyong...
![[Alert] Kalinga journalists sued for cyber-libel in Isabela](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/wp-cover1-400x250.png)
The publisher and editor-in-chief of a community paper in Kalinga are facing a cyberlibel complaint that the mayor of the provincial capital Tabuk filed with the provincial prosecutor's office in Cabagan, Isabela, some 100 kilometers away. Also included in the...
![[Alert] Masbate journo killed by soldiers](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/125410704101643954579753743679497438792425211n_2020-11-17_15-58-51-400x250.jpg)
[Alert] Masbate journo killed by soldiers A freelance journalist in Masbate province was gunned down by soldiers in Milagros town on Saturday, November 14, in what authorities claimed was an "encounter" but which the victims' colleagues denied. The killing of Ronnie...
![[Alert] Cagayan de Oro journo attacked by police officer](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/wp-cover-400x250.png)
The Cagayan de Oro Press Club reported that one of its members, Rene Abris, was manhandled by an "intoxicated" police officer on November 22. A statement from COPC President Manuel Jaudian said Abris was at a restaurant in Barangay Canitoan talking to the...
![[Alert] Journalists in Camarines Norte arrested over cyber libel raps](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/124033109_1545961098936098_3685424490683596673_n-400x250.jpg)
Camarines Norte journalists Virgilio “Bagwis” Avila Jr., Deo Trininad, and Mia Concordia were arrested and detained Tuesday, November 10, for several counts of cyber libel filed against them by Camarines Norte governor Edgar Tallado. As of this writing, all three have...
![[Statement] State security flout the law by abetting Celiz’s lies](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screenshot-113-400x250.png)
There is a video on YouTube that features Jeffrey Celiz, the so-called "Ka Eric" touted as the "star witness" of the National Task Fore to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, in which he accuses National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Director and past...
![[Alert] NUJP member who survived 2016 slay try shot dead](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/signal-2020-11-10-100804-280x250.png)
A journalist who survived a slay attempt in 2016 was shot dead early Tuesday morning, November 10, in front of his home in Villasis, Pangasinan, police and colleagues said. A police spot report said Virgilio Maganes, who turned 62 on November 7, was about to enter his...
![[Statement] On the termination of ABS-CBN’s YouTube channels](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1604367458-Screen-Shot-2020-11-03-at-9.10.45-AM-546-400x250.png)
At around 7:30 am on Tuesday, November 3, YouTube terminated the ABS-CBN News and ANC channels over some yet unspecified violations of the video sharing site's terms of service. By afternoon, they had been restored even as the Philippine Star's Janvic Mateo reported...
![[Statement] Rolly is a dreadful lesson on press freedom](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/wp-cover-400x250.png)
Nothing has better illustrated the great disservice to the nation the government, particularly the House, has wrought through the shutting down of ABS-CBN than Super Typhoon Rolly's deadly rampage through the Bicol region. This is not to denigrate the usual yeoman's...