Reporters Without Borders welcomes the life sentence passed on hit man Madix Maulana for the 2005 murder of radio journalist Edgar Amoro in Pagadian, on the southern island of Mindanao. The organisation regards it as an “encouraging sign” but believes the case should not be closed until the masterminds...

A Joint statement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) and the participants of the CMFR Human Rights Reporting Seminar last January 23, 2010 TWO MONTHS have passed since the worst incident of the killing of journalists and media workers in all of media history, and the worst...

The Center for Media Freedom & Responsibility (CMFR) organized a roundtable discussion with media and civil society organizations (CSOs) engaged in electoral activities. During the discussion, participants from the broadcast, print, and electronic media from around the country expressed their concern...

By GERMELINA LACORTE Davao Today DAVAO CITY—“Malacañang could not wash its hands off the Ampatuan massacre because the state is obliged to prevent such things,” said Lawyer Harry Roque, who represented the 13 widows of journalist victims of the Ampatuan massacre in the filing of cases before the...

By the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism Posted by Davao Today WITH just nine session days to go before the 14th Congress adjourns for the May 2010 elections, leaders of over 100 media and nongovernment organizations urged lawmakers to pass with dispatch the Freedom of Information Act, as a...

THIRTEEN WIDOWS OF JOURNALIST VICTIMS of the November 23 Ampatuan massacre file charges of gross negligence and dereliction of duty against Major General Alfredo Cayton, then commanding officer of the 6th ID of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and Col. Medardo Geslani, the 601st Brigade Commander,...

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/19 January) — The number of media workers killed in Ampatuan, Maguindanao on November 23, is 32 with the addition of Jepon Cadagdagon, who was not included in the media list before. Rowena Carranza-Paraan, director of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP)...

STOP KILLING JOURNALISTS! Davao City journalists demand justice for the 57 victims of Ampatuan massacre, while calling for an end to the 'culture of impunity' in the country. (photo by Keith Bacongco / AKP...

5 December 2009 We absolutely oppose the imposition of martial law in Maguindanao and, prospectively, anywhere else in the country. We believe that, with the severe restrictions on freedoms it imposes, on the one hand, and the wide latitude of police, military, and official powers it allows, on the other,...

The brutal, indiscriminate mass murder on Monday in Ampatuan town, in Maguindanao province, raises the ultimate challenge of conscience. It carries the culture of impunity at work in this country to such levels of horror that, if it remains unpunished for long,  can send the nation into an inexorable...

(compiled by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines) Koronadal City 1.        Adolfo, Benjie, Gold Star Daily, Koronadal City 2.        Bataluna, Rubello, Gold Star Daily, Koronadal City 3.        Cachuela, Hannibal, Punto News, Koronadal City 4.        Legarte,...

MOURNING FOR JUSTICE. People gather around Centennial Park to light candles, condemning the carnage in Maguindanao that killed 57 unarmed people, including journalists, lawyers and some civilians. (davaotoday.com photo by Jomel...

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We are no longer who we were before Monday. Even in the annals of political violence in the Philippines, there have been no parallels to the slaughter that occurred on the lonely road to Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao on November 23. 52 unarmed civilians all, the majority of whom were media professionals, the...

(second of three parts) First Part : A Pattern to Madness By GERMELINA A. LACORTE Davao Today The mine-rich jungle of Compostela Valley is not only known for its gold. It�s also where the fight between the government troops and the Communist guerillas is at its fiercest. On its website, the military...

NUJP hits holding of journalists in...

By Cheryll D. Fiel Davao Today A broadcaster was shot dead in Bayugan, Agusan del Sur, according to the latest news alert by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP). Jonathan Petalvero, 43, was in a restaurant when suspects went inside and shot him, the NUJP news alert said, citing police...

Manufacturing consent By Luis Teodoro Business World Posted by Davao Today Walter Lippmann, who was the most respected figure in US journalism for about half of the 20th century, used the term �the manufacture of consent� in the 1920s to describe how people can be made to decide the way their alleged...

Unidentified gunmen fired several shots at the offices of Bangued-based Catholic-run newspaper Abra Today, and its radio affiliates DZPA and Spirit FM radio DWWM last night. According to a report by Artemio Dumlao, two men in separate motorcycles fired at the steel gates of the St. Arnold Janssen...

By GRACE S. UDDIN Davao Today DAVAO CITY- Davao journalists called House Speaker Prospero Nograles a �bully� when he threatened one local TV station of libel after the network reported that militant groups threw tomatoes in front of his office. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines-Davao...

by Patricio P. Diaz/MindaNews GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/10 June) –What are the problems the right of reply law purportedly seeks to remedy? One is false; the second is real; and the third is misconstrued. The proposed law is either irrelevant or unnecessary. Read...

By National Union of Journalists of the Philippines-Davao City Speaker Prospero Nograles has unmasked himself as a bully, one with no qualms about brandishing the power of his high office to threaten journalists going about their jobs with libel suits and the passage of the unconstitutional Right of Reply...

Nograles gets flak over plan to sue TV station http://www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/nograles-gets-flak-over-plan-sue-tv-station...

by Patricio P. Diaz/MindaNews GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/3 June) — No amount of opposition from journalists and media organizations can stop Congress from passing SB 2150 and HB 3306. �It’s time to approve the proposal despite the objections of members of the working press,� said Senator...