Press Freedom
Military Media Profiling In Southern Philippines Assailed
Thursday, November 13th, 2008NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS OF THE PHILIPPINESStatementWestmincom’s bio-data requirement an intrusion on privacy and press freedom that should be rejected. The NUJP is incensed at the sudden requirement imposed by Major Eugene Batara, spokesman of th…
Military Media Profiling Slammed By Mindanao Journalists
Thursday, November 13th, 2008NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS IN THE PHILIPPINES.Zamboanga City-Sulu-Basilan-TawiTawi ChaptersStatementNUJP ZamBaSulTa chapter questions the re imposition of submitting bio data for Western Mindanao Command’s (WestMinCom) media profiles.WestMinCom spok…
More Media Groups Denounce Military Profiling Of Journalists In Mindanao
Thursday, November 13th, 2008For quite a time the Peace and Conflict Journalism Network (PECOJON) Western Mindanao Chapter became silent about some issues regarding media harassment here in our region, but this time, the considered harassment and invasion to privacy of the profili…
Western Mindanao Command Replies To Media Profiling Issues
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008H E A D Q U A R T E R SWESTERN MINDANAO COMMANDCamp Don Basilio Navarro, Upper Calarian, Zamboanga City. WESTMINCOM, AFP. The issue on the filling-up of bio-data for members of the WMC Defense Press Corps (DPC) has become a very big issue and has been …
Media groups assail military profiling of journalists in Mindanao
Sunday, November 9th, 2008Military media profiling document. ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Nov. 9, 2008) – After harassing a radio reporter in Mindanao, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) now wanted all journalists covering a major military base in t…
Philippine Army orders probe into media complaints against officer in Mindanao
Thursday, November 6th, 2008MANILA, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Nov. 6, 2008) – The Philippine Army has ordered an investigation into a controversial officer accused of berating a journalist covering a fire that razed an ammo dump inside a military base in Mindanao.Lt. Col…
Discipline colonel who threatened Cotabato reporter - NUJP
Thursday, November 6th, 2008The National Union of Journalists of the Philippine demands that the Armed Forces of the Philippines discipline one Lieutenant Colonel John Oswald Bucu, camp commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, for threatening Loreto Rosario, reporter of r…
Erring Army official’s apology to media asked
Monday, November 3rd, 2008KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines (Philippine News Agency / Nov. 3, 2008) — Members of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in Cotabato City have asked Army Col. John Oswald Bucu (earlier identified as Aswald Buco) of the 6th Infantr…
Reporter hits harassment by Army colonel
Monday, November 3rd, 2008COTABATO CITY, Philippines (Philippine Daily Inquirer / Nov. 3, 2008) - A radio reporter here has complained of harassment by an Army colonel who allegedly berated him for entering the 6th Infantry Division at the height of a fire that razed an ammunit…
Journalists’ suit against president’s husband to proceed
Friday, October 3rd, 2008MANILA, Philippines (Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility / Oct. 3, 2008) - The Philippine Court of Appeals has denied a motion by the husband of President Gloria Arroyo to quash the case, filed against him by journalists in response to his nume…
College Editors Mourn Death Of Press Freedom Fighter
Thursday, September 25th, 2008The College Editors Guild of the Philippines, in behalf of its National Office, regional formations and chapters, all member publications and affiliate organizations nationwide and across the globe, expresses its most heartfelt condolences to the famil…
Philippine Publisher Arrested In 9-Year Old Libel Case
Friday, September 5th, 2008Police arrested veteran columnist and newspaper publisher Amado “Jake” Macasaet, an outspoken critic of the Arroyo administration, in connection with a long-pending libel case, according to local news reports.Police served an arrest warrant for Macasae…
Self-Censorship Is Biggest Enemy, Journalists Told
Monday, September 1st, 2008TAGAYTAY CITY, Philippines (NUJP / Sept. 1, 2008) - Having shared the struggle of a noted Filipino press freedom fighter during the Marcos dictatorship, Edita Burgos has called on the country’s journalists to continuously fight what she says is the m…
An Open Letter To Gloria Arroyo On Press Freedom
Thursday, August 28th, 2008President Gloria Arroyo Madame President: You have warned against those who exercise press freedom without responsibility. In a recent speech during the centennial celebration of “The Free Press” magazine, you declared:”Freedom in the hands of su…
Journalists Pay Tribute To Fallen Colleagues In Philippines
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Journalists pray for murdered members of the Philippine media in front of the radio station dxRZ of the Radio Mindanao Network on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 in Zamboanga City. Two RMN broadcasters, Dennis Cuesta and Martin Roxas, were killed in separat…
Photo: Journalists Pay Honor, Tribute To Fallen Colleagues In Philippines
Thursday, August 21st, 2008Journalists pray for murdered members of the Philippine media in front of the radio station dxRZ of the Radio Mindanao Network on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 in Zamboanga City. Two RMN broadcasters, Dennis Cuesta and Martin Roxas, were killed in separa…
Capiz Radioman’s Murder Mocks Government’s Claims: NUJP
Saturday, August 9th, 2008The murder in broad daylight of Capiz broadcaster Martin Roxas on Thursday, August 7, mocks government’s claims that it has brought down the incidence of extrajudicial killings, particularly the murder of journalists.Roxas, 32, is the fourth journalist…
NUJP To Gov’t: Prove Resolve To End Killings - GMANews.TV
Friday, August 8th, 2008MANILA, Philippines (August 8, 2008) - In the heels of another attack against a journalist, a national media organization on Friday challenged the government to immediately arrest the assailants and masterminds behind such cases if it is serious in sto…
Another RMN Broadcaster Shot Dead In Roxas City
Thursday, August 7th, 2008MANILA, Philippines (August 7, 2008) - A broadcast journalist of the Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) in Roxas City, Capiz who is also an officer of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in the province was shot and killed in a broad …
Philippine Radio Broadcaster Still In Jail Despite Posting Bail: Reporters Sans Border
Thursday, May 29th, 2008Reporters Without Borders deplored the continued detention of radio broadcaster Alex Adonis, of dxMF Bombo Radyo, despite his posting of bail after the Davao regional court said he could be freed on this condition. He was sentenced last year to four an…
Malaya Corres Harrased?
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Two journalists employed by the privately-owned daily Malaya, Maria Elena Catajan and Redjie Melvic Cawis, plan to file a complaint against the deputy mayor of Alfonso Lista, in the northern province of Ifugao, accusing him of threatening them with fir…
Reporters Sans Border Condemns Jailing Of Filipino Journalist
Friday, February 1st, 2008Reporters Without Borders condemns the detention of radio show host Julito Ucab, who has been held in Butuan City, on the southern island of Mindanao, since last month for failing to attend a court hearing on a defamation case dating back to 2004.”Afte…
Press Freedom In Philippines
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008A t-shirt and sticker print designed by the Mindanao Examiner Productions in support to press freedom in the Philippines. Please feel free to download and share. Mabuhay!
BURMA: Media-in-Exile Examine Strengths, Weaknesses: IPS
Friday, October 19th, 2007BANGKOK, Oct 18 (IPS) - Exiled Burmese journalists are now feeling the pressure to fill the information vacuum about events in their country in the weeks following the military’s clampdown on citizen journalists and on pro-democracy protesters there….
China: Journey To The Heart Of Internet Censorship
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007In partnership with Reporters Without Borders and Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a Chinese Internet expert working in IT industry has produced an exclusive study on the key mechanism of the Chinese official system of online censorship, surveillance an…
Foreign Journalists Barred From Press Conference Of Detained Coup Leader In Philippines
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007MANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 09 May) – The Philippine military on Wednesday barred two foreign journalists from a press conference of a detained coup leader now running for senator with politicians opposed to President Gloria Arroyo’s rule.The duo -…
RMN News Van Bombed In Southern Philippines
Monday, March 12th, 2007CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 13 Mar) – An unidentified man bombed a news van of a radio station before dawn Tuesday in Cagayan de Oro City in southern Philippines, but police said there were no reports of injuries or casualties.The attack…
Mindanao Journalists Assail AFP, PNP For Spying On Free Press
Monday, February 26th, 2007CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - Filipino journalists expressed alarm Tuesday over spying activities of military and police agents on members of the media in the southern Philippines.Journalists labeled the spying as “a graphic demonstration of the culture of imp…
End Impunity In Philippines: Reporters Sans Borders
Friday, February 23rd, 2007ON THE EVE OF THE SIXTH ANNIVERSARY of the first killing of a journalist during Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s presidency, Reporters Without Borders wrote to Arroyo Friday urging her to take energetic measures to put an end to impunity for the murders of jo…