[PRESS STATEMENT] NUJP calls on journalists to organize into unions and defend press freedom amid continuing threats against media workers.
June 26, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines condemns the harassment committed by a lone gunman against five Bulacan-based journalists who were on their way home to Malolos, Bulacan, around 3:00 in the afternoon of June 21, 2019, Friday....
[Alert] CDO journalist red-tagged anew
26 June 2019 Cagayan de Oro City-based journalist Cong Corrales was again the subject of a malicious campaign aimed at branding human rights activists, church workers, and other members of civic organizations as supporters of the New People's Army. The name of...
[Alert] NUJP red-tagged yet again
June 25, 2019 A streamer tagging the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) as 'terrorist supporters', along with several militant groups and human rights activists, was again found this morning, June 25, along a busy road in Cagayan de Oro City. The...
Take care of ALL workers’ safety— NUJP to media industry
25 June 2019 It is unfortunate - but not surprising - that it has to take the loss of an icon to highlight the continuing lack of concern for the safety and welfare of workers in the media industry, both in news and entertainment.Could the accident that felled Eddie...
NUJP lauds 1,000 artists’ call to renew ABS-CBN franchise
19 June 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines hails and stands fully in support of the call by close to 1,000 actors, directors, writers, musicians, composers, cinematographers and other members of the television and film industry to the incoming...
Ban on Amatz: Unconstitutional and stupid
19 June 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines denounces the ban ordered by the National Telecommunications Commission on Shanti Dope’s rap piece, “Amatz,” on the request of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency. At the same time, we deplore the...
After Valle abduction, largest int’l press group urges PH gov’t to protect journalists
17 June 2019 The largest global organization of journalists has called on President Duterte and the Philippine government to uphold press freedom and ensure the safety of media workers, days after a veteran journalist was abducted and held incommunicado, then later...
PNP’s ‘mistaken identity’ abduction of journo inexcusable
10 June 2019 Let us call a spade a spade. The supposed "arrest" on Sunday of Davao Today columnist Fidelina Margarita Valle in Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental was not a lawful operation but a criminal abduction of a journalist. Valle, a veteran community journalist and...
NUJP Davao City Chapter statement on the arrest of journalist Margarita Valle
The National Union of Journalist in the Philippines (NUJP) - Davao Chapter strongly condemns the arrest and calls for the immediate surface of journalist Margarita “Ging” Valle, a columnist of Davaotoday.com. Valle remains incommunicado after she was nabbed on...
UPDATED ALERT: Davao Today columnist reportedly nabbed, missing June 9, 2019 (3:23 p.m.)
Davao City-based opinion writer Margarita Valle was arrested at the Laguindingan Airport in Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental, while on her way back home Sunday morning, June 9. A columnist of SunStar Davao and Davao Today, Valle was in Cagayan de Oro to conduct a...
No excuse for Tulfo’s execrable behavior
3 June 2019 There can be no excuse for Erwin Tulfo's utter lack of ethics and scruples in publicly insulting Secretary Rolando Bautista simply for not being able to immediately answer his demand for an interview. No, this has nothing to do with Bautista, for Tulfo's...
NUJP salutes CDO colleagues’ unity in defense of press freedom
28 May 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines hails our colleagues in Cagayan de Oro for their show of unity against unrelenting efforts to suppress freedom of the press and of expression. When unidentified persons draped a black streamer naming...