[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...
ALERT: CAMERAMAN SHOT DEAD IN DAVAO DEL NORTE
1 July 2019 Unidentified gunman shot dead Reymond Paciol, 28 years old and a former cameraman of state-run People’s Television on Sunday afternoon. Paciol was riding his motorcycle and is about to open the gate of his apartment when a still unidentified suspect shot...
[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...