The website of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines was down Monday night due to a massive denial of service attack.
Keep the flame burning and fight against impunity and journalist killings. This was the rallying call of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Davao City Chapter as the group commemorated Wednesday the seventh year of the Ampatuan Massacre.
Davao Today’s editor and a child rights advocate scored a legal victory when the fiscal junked the libel charges filed against them by the military.
In a statement on Monday, September 19, the NUJP said the attacks against freelance journalist Gretchen Malalad and Al-Jazeera correspondent Jamela Alindogan-Caudron “have gone beyond legitimate criticism of their professional output to outright threats on their persons.”
Incoming President Rodrigo Duterte is not apologizing for his statement about the corrupt practices in media and even drew the lines that separates media from each other.
Journalists are not taking easy the statement of incoming President Rodrigo Duterte on the continuing media killings.
During the commemoration of the World Press Freedom Day, May 3, families of the victims of Ampatuan massacre slammed Pres. Benigno Aquino III for failing to convict the perpetrators of the crime before his term ends.
A nationwide network of independent media organizations, AlterMidya denounced today, April 4 “police intimidation and attempts to suppress information” by preventing journalists from covering the violent dispersal of the farmers’ rally in Kidapawan City on April 1.
A progressive partylist lawmaker strongly condemned the paramilitary group in Surigao del Sur after issuing threats against members of the media who are covering the anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines this Saturday.
With information right at our fingertips, a journalist can write a story from calling sources and receiving press releases. But real stories happen on the ground and are best told when seen by the writers themselves especially in indigenous peoples communities.
