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[Statement] Be on the right side of history, approve ABS-CBN’s franchise

by Alyssa Clarin | Jul 7, 2020 | Statement

After 12 sessions, the joint hearing on the franchise of ABS-CBN by the House committees on legislative franchises and on good governance and public accountability finally ended on July 6, 2020. In the coming days, the legislative franchises committee is expected to...

[News Release] NUJP holds motorcade for ABS-CBN Franchise

by Alyssa Clarin | Jul 6, 2020 | Headlines, News

6 July 2020 MANILA—The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), ABS-CBN employees, and supporters on Monday, July 6, held a motorcade rally at the House of Representatives in Quezon City in support of the ABS-CBN franchise renewal. Forty-six cars, 12...

[Statement] NUJP to Guimba LGU: Stop harassments, address people’s issues

by Alyssa Clarin | May 21, 2020 | Statement

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines calls on the local government of Guimba, Nueva Ecija, to immediately stop harassing Radyo Natin Guimba and its staff and preventing them from covering events of public interest in the municipality. We have received...

[Statement] NUJP to Roque: You owe CNN and Triciah Terada an apology

by Alyssa Clarin | May 19, 2020 | Statement

Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque owes CNN Philippines and its reporter Triciah Terada an apology for his boorish and, as it turned out, misbegotten tirade. Roque took exception to a CNN tweet on Monday, May 18, that said he admitted that the government has no...

[Statement] Appeal vs presenting suspects not yet formally charged

by Alyssa Clarin | May 16, 2020 | Statement

The case of teacher Ronnel Mas has, for unfortunate reasons, placed media in the spotlight. This is because, while the prosecutor ruled that his warrantless arrest by the National Bureau of Investigation was invalid, this was subsequently “cured” by what was described...

[Press Release] Asian media unions protest ABS-CBN closure

by Alyssa Clarin | May 16, 2020 | Statement

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

by Alyssa Clarin | May 15, 2020 | Statement

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...

An appeal to bring CH.2, DZMM, MOR, and CH.23 back on air

by Alyssa Clarin | May 12, 2020 | Campaign

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...

STATEMENT CONDEMNING NTF-ELCAC’S BLACK PROPAGANDA AGAINST ABS-CBN AND MARIA RESSA

by Alyssa Clarin | May 10, 2020 | Statement

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

by Alyssa Clarin | May 8, 2020 | Alert

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

by Alyssa Clarin | May 6, 2020 | Statement

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...

[Statement] #NoDeadAir: Resist all assaults on freedom of the press and expression

by Alyssa Clarin | May 5, 2020 | Campaign, Statement

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...