![[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...
![[Statement] Persistent impunity is society’s, not just media’s, loss](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/signal-2020-11-02-131324-400x250.jpeg)
November 2 is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. And, of course, this day continues to remind us of how deeply entrenched the culture of impunity is in the Philippines, where 189 journalists have been murdered since 1986 with hardly...
![[Statement] NUJP TO PARLADE: The burden of proof is on the accuser](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Screenshot-102-400x250.png)
In an October 26 appearance on One News' The Chiefs. Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., spokesman of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, as usual without proffering any proof, claimed communist rebels have "infiltrated lahat ng media outfit...
![[Alert] Ombudsman dismiss Ging Valle cas](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/valle-files-charges-728x410-1-400x250.jpg)
The Office of the Ombudsman dismissed the case of Grave Misconduct, Grave Abuse of Authority, Conduct Unbecoming of Public Official filed by journalist Fedilina Margarita " Ging" Valle against 17 military and police officers in relation to her arrest and detention...