The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) joins other organizations in reiterating our demand for the scrapping of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) memorandum ordering the blocking of 27 websites. Media outfits Bulatlat and Pinoy...
STATEMENTS
Statement | Not a minute longer
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) thanks Special Rapporteur on Free Expression and Opinion Irene Khan for visiting journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and human rights defenders Marielle Domequil and Alexander Abinguna on Jan. 27 at Tacloban City...
Statement | Don’t let media workers be last to know
As reports emerge of a looming shutdown of operations and attendant layoffs at CNN Philippines, we note that network management has yet to talk to its media workers about their future. As is common in these situations, those who produce the content and whose lives...
ALERTS
[Alert] Police bar Rappler Cebu correspondent from covering release of detained Lumad teacher, tag Rappler as ‘fake news’
WATCH. While waiting for the release of Lumad teacher Chad Booc, police allow other media outlets inside the PRO-7 except Rappler, calling us a fake news outlet. Rappler has extensively covered the Lumad arrests, reaching out to police for comments on...
[Alert] Former NUJP Capiz chair shot dead
(Screenshot from Bombo Radyo Roxas) Pilar, Capiz administrator John Heredia, a longtime member of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, was shot dead by motorcycle-riding gunmen at Barangay Lawa-an, Roxas City Sunday afternoon, May 2. The victim...
[Alert] A day before World Press Freedom Day, police raids house of campus journalist in Bicol
At around 4 a.m. today, May 2, around 40 elements of PNP-CIDG raided the house of student journalist Justine Mesias, in Daraga, Albay. Mesias is senior editor of college publication Cassipi Online of Bicol University and spokesperson of Youth Act Now Against Tyranny...
NEWS
NUJP mourns death of community journalist, press freedom advocate Richard Gappi
(Photo courtesy of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines) The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) pays tribute to its longtime member and press freedom advocate Richard Gappi who passed away July 16 due to acute respiratory failure. Gappi...
NUJP North America formed
NUJP North America first online general assembly. MANILA — The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) North America chapter was established July 1 during an online assembly. Attended by 12 journalists from Canada and the United States, the...
Masked Media campaign bags awards
Masked Media Campaign won 2 Golds, a Silver and a Bronze at APAC Tambuli Awards, a pioneer global award show that recognizes effective brands with purpose. MANILA — It’s another win for press freedom as advertising company Ace Saatchi & Saatchi took home several...
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