19 March 2020 A cameraman of CLTV36, Pampanga-based TV station, was threatened by a police officer manning the checkpoint in Jose Abad Santos Avenue, City of San Fernando on March 18, 2020 at four o’clock in the afternoon. The said policeman barred cameraman Art...
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[Joint Statement] PCOO Accreditation: Unnecessary, Unreasonable, Unconstitutional
We, media organizations, journalists, press freedom advocates and academics, raise our collective voice and declare our opposition to government requiring journalists to secure accreditation from the Presidential Communications Operations Office to be exempted from...
Safety guidelines for covering the COVID-19 crisis
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines is issuing these safety guidelines for covering the COVID-19 crisis in the hopes of enabling our colleagues to keep themselves safe as they strive to deliver the latest information on the health emergency and how...
[Statement] NUJP statement on PCOO accreditation
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) believes that the media's role in the ongoing COVID-19 emergency is vital in informing both the government and the people on the real situation on the ground and useful in making the right decisions. The...
RELEASE FRENCHIE MAE CUMPIO
We demand the immediate release of community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio who has been arrested along with four human rights defenders on Feb. 7, 2020 in Tacloban City. The circumstances surrounding her arrest are enraging. A fact-finding mission found out that the...
[Alert] NUJP, CDO journalists red-tagged in protest action in support of ABS-CBN
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) and several journalists were red-tagged anew in flyers distributed immediately after journalists held a candle-lighting ceremony in front of the ABS-CBN Northern Mindanao Station in Cagayan de Oro City...
[Statement] Red tagging and vilification will not cow the independent media
The National Union of Journalists denounces the renewed red tagging in Cagayan do Oro of journalists by cowards who hide behind anonymity to spread their calumny. The latest round of false accusations has grown from the handful of local journalists - NUJP-CDO chair...
[Statement] NUJP hails GMA workers’ victory
The National Union of Journalists hails the Court of Appeals decision ordering the GMA network to reinstate, with no loss of seniority rights, and with full back wages and benefits, 51 regular employees who had been found illegally terminated. We congratulate the...
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[Statement] Poe to receive 200K signatures for ABS-CBN franchise renewal
The NUJP today is submitting copies of signed petitions supporting the renewal of ABS-CBN'S broadcast franchise to Senate Committee on Public Services chairperson Sen. Grace Poe. The committee is set to conduct a hearing on the network's franchise today. The petitions...