![[Press Release] Asian media unions protest ABS-CBN closure](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/abs-cbn-closure-400x250.jpg)
Media unions from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Hong Kong have protested the closure of broadcast network ASB-CBN and called on the Duterte administration "to act swiftly to ensure that Congress renews the network’s license and restore ABS-CBN to the air." In their...
![[Statement] NUJP denounces red-tagging of ex-chair Paraan](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/weng-paraan-400x250.jpg)
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) condemns the malicious and deplorable use of photographs of the first all-women media safety training held in the Philippines to red-tag our former chairperson, colleagues and the NUJP. A social media post by...
12 May 2020 The signing off of broadcast network ABS-CBN not only endangers the employment of its 11,000 workers but, just as important, if not more so, affects the lives of citizens as well. Government clearly trampled on freedom of the press and of expression when...
10 May 2020 We, media groups, news outfits, journalists, and academics, condemn the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) for a black propaganda offensive on social media against ABS-CBN and Rappler CEO Maria Ressa. These Facebook...
![[Alert] Dumaguete journalist gets death threat](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/roy-august-bustillo-400x250.jpg)
8 May 2020 A journalist based in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental received a death threat Thursday evening, May 7, 2020, just two days after a colleague was murdered. Roy August Bustillo, anchor and reporter of Power 91 dyGB FM and correspondent for CNN Philippines,...
![[Statement] Justice for Rex Cornelio, 16th journalist slain under Duterte](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/rex-cornelio2-400x250.jpg)
May 6, 2020 The National Union of Journalists demands that authorities get to the bottom of the murder in Dumaguete City of Cornelio Pepino, more popularly known as Rex Cornelio, of dyMD Energy 93.7 FM, who was gunned down Tuesday night, May 5, 2020 as he headed home...
5 May 2020 #NoToABSCBNShutdown This is the kind of government we have. Even as our people battle a deadly pandemic, it carries out an underhanded assault on freedom of the press and of expression through a cease and desist order issued by the National...
![[Alert] Radio reporter shot dead in Dumaguete City](https://nujp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/rex-cornelio-400x250.jpg)
5 May 2020 A reporter of a community radio station in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental was shot dead on Tuesday night, May 5, 2020. Police said Cornelio Pepino, 48, popularly known as Rex Cornelio, of dyMD Energy 93.7 FM was riding home with his wife on a motorcycle...
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