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[NEWS RELEASE] Journalists fear worsening attacks amid red-tagging
1 September 2019 MANILA -- Journalists have raised concerns over worsening attacks against the press following the red-tagging of veteran journalist Froilan Gallardo and former National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) director Leonardo Vicente...
[Statement] End the inaction! Ensure the safety of Cong Corrales and other threatened journalists!
28 August 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines demands that authorities and security forces in Cagayan de Oro and Northern Mindanao ensure the safety of our former director Leonardo Vicente “Cong” Corrales, associate editor of the Mindanao Gold...
[Statement] 117 months since the massacre, we still await justice
23 August 2019 Today, it has been 117 months since 58 persons, 32 of them media workers, were waylaid and butchered on a hilltop in the town of Ampatuan, Maguindanao. All because the leading members of a powerful and wealthy political clan could not countenance any...
[Statement] HANDS OFF CAMPUS JOURNALISTS! On the harassment of The Pillar, University of Eastern Philippines
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines joins our colleagues in the College Editors Guild of the Philippines in condemning the intimidation by state security forces of The Pillar, official student publication of the University of Eastern Philippines in...
[Statement] Mr. Panelo, you are not entitled to twist the facts
The disingenuous Salvador Panelo resorts to deliberately twisted logic to justify Malacanang's ban on Rappler. “There are certain rules that you have also to observe as a guest of the Palace,” Panelo said after the Supreme Court ordered the government to comment on...
[Statement] ATTACKS WILL NOT SILENCE THE INDEPENDENT MEDIA
August 11, 2019 The National Union of Journalists decries the increasing incidence of what can only be described as targeted attacks on members of the critical media. Recently, our Bacolod chapter chairperson, Marchel Espina, was tailed by a suspicious motorcycle...
[ALERT] Ifugao journalist seriously wounded in gun attack
6 August 2019 A journalist and human rights worker is seriously wounded after being shot by unidentified gunmen in front of his house in Lagawe, Ifugao at six o’clock tonight, Tuesday, August 6. Brandon Lee, Ifugao correspondent of Baguio City-based media outfit...
[Alert] NUJP-Bacolod chair tailed by rider while on assignment
August 4, 2019 The chairperson of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines’ Bacolod chapter reported being tailed by a suspicious motorcycle rider Sunday afternoon, August 4, as she returned home from covering the killings in Negros Oriental province....
[Alert] Ex radio station chief harassed by soldiers
August 4, 2019 A former station manager of a radio station that focused on reporting Indigenous People’s (IP) issues was reportedly harassed by soldiers belonging to the 1st Special Forces Battalion based in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon. Kristin Lim said a group of...
NUJP launches Ampatuan Massacre 10th anniversary campaign
July 25, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) has launched its digital campaign commemorating the upcoming 10th anniversary of the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan massacre, which claimed the lives of 58 persons, 32 of them media workers. In...
[Joint Statement] Freedom of expression in the time of Duterte
Over three years ago, the nation has been promised: change is coming. And change did come, but things took a turn for the worse. As the nation marks President Rodrigo Duterte’s third year in power, we look back in sheer dismay over the unprecedented attacks...
[Alert] NUJP CDO chapter chair, Davao columnist red-tagged by FB group
July 12, 2019 A Facebook community page which calls itself Quiet No More PH is accusing the head of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines’ (NUJP) Cagayan de Oro City chapter and a Davao City columnist as ‘supporters’ and ‘protectors’ of the Communist...