RED TAGGING: Hands off NUJP-Cagayan de Oro member Cong Corrales and family
February 22, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines deplores the inclusion of our member and former director Cong Corrales, his wife and son in an anonymous list naming alleged members of the Communist Party of the Philippines in Cagayan de Oro. The...
Persecution of Rappler underscores need to decriminalize libel NOW
Feb. 18, 2019The government’s persecution of Maria Ressa and Rappler, the latest of which is the Department of Justice’s brazen perversion of the law to allow their prosecution for cyber libel, underscores the urgent need to decriminalize the offense.It is bad enough...
Philstar takedown: The chilling effect of government’s perversion of the law
Feb. 17, 2019 The decision of Philstar.com to take down the 2002 article "Influential businessman eyed in ex-councilor's slay" is an inevitable consequence of this government’s, through the Department of Justice and the National Bureau of Investigation, twisting the...
Arrest of Maria Ressa is persecution by a bully government
Feb. 13, 2019 The arrest Rappler CEO Maria Ressa on the clearly manipulated charge of cyber libel is a shameless act of persecution by a bully government. It is clear that the Department of Justice perverted the law by charging Maria for an offense allegedly committed...
DDoS attacks on NUJP, alternative media continue
February 11, 2019 The website of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has again come under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on Monday, February 11, 2019, and already been taken down twice since this morning. The DDoS displays the same...
Convict Ampatuan, Justice Now!
On November 23, 2009, 58 people, 32 of them journalists, were brutally murdered in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao. But almost 10 years after, not a single conviction has been handed to the mastermind of the massacre, members of the powerful Ampatuan clan, who plotted and...
WE’RE STILL UP: NUJP site swamped by 426gb DDoS strike
Feb. 9, 2019On Friday, February 8, 2019, the website of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines become briefly unavailable twice after being subjected to a distributed denial of service attack.According to our digital security partners, the two attacks...
DDoS attacks on alternative news sites meant to stifle criticism, dissent
Feb. 6, 2019 For more than half a month now, the alternative news website Bulatlat has been subjected to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks aimed at bringing it down. The first series of attacks lasted from January 19 to 31. The second wave came on February...
Rappler cyberlibel indictment endangers freedom of the press, expression
It is extremely unfortunate, though not surprising, that the Department of Justice has approved the filing of a cyber libel case against Rappler and its CEO Maria Ressa and former researcher Reynaldo Santos Jr. While we are confident that Rappler can competently...
NUJP slams House reso restricting access to SALN
Feb. 2, 2019 The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines protests House Resolution 2467, which will require majority consent before lawmakers’ statements of assets, liabilities and net worth can be accessed. We find it ironic that a document meant to help...
NUJP beefs up alert system for media attacks ahead of mid-term polls
In a bid to be more efficient and effective in responding to continued attacks on media practitioners, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines has strengthened and expanded its regional safety offices throughout the country. As the country heads...
Eight years after, justice remains elusive for Doc Gerry Ortega
Jan. 24, 2019 On this day eight years ago, environmentalist, good governance advocate and broadcaster Gerardo "Doc Gerry" Ortega was shot dead in an ukay-ukay shop in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.Eight years after, justice remains elusive for Doc Gerry and his...