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After coup, Myanmar’s journalists watch and wait, warily

Johanna Son, Reporting ASEAN/VERA Files
Posted at Feb 09 09:52 PM

The absence of a declared crackdown on the media in Myanmar does not mean normalcy, much less safety for professional journalists. The haziness of it all is, by itself, a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads Read more »

Duterte won’t allow ABS-CBN to operate even if given a franchise by Congress

Joyce Balancio, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 09 12:29 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said he will not allow the National Communications Commission (NTC) to issue ABS-CBN a permit to operate, even if Congress grants the network a renewal of franchise.  Read more »

Advocates bike for press freedom

Gigie Cruz, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 08 08:58 AM

Bikers pedal in front of the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center in Quezon City during the “Bike for Press Freedom” solidarity ride from UP-Diliman to Don Alejandro Roces Circle, going to the Commission on Human Rights, on Sunday. Read more »

Bike for Press Freedom, isinagawa

Jekki Pascual, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Feb 08 09:19 AM

Nagsagawa ng 'bike for press freedom' mula University of the Philippines hanggang ABS-CBN sa lungsod Quezon ang mga grupo ng mamahayag ngayong Linggo. Read more »

Trump throttled press freedom, journalists say

Reuters
Posted at Jan 13 11:02 PM

CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Maria Ressa, who heads a Philippine news website known for its scrutiny of President Rodrigo Duterte, and Sonny Swe, CEO of Frontier Myanmar, told a Reuters Next panel that press freedom had deteriorated sharply. Read more »

Palace: Fresh push for ABS-CBN franchise is 'sole prerogative' of Congress

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 05 03:43 PM

The fate of a fresh bill seeking to grant ABS-CBN Corp a broadcast franchise is "a sole constitutional prerogative of Congress," Malacañang said on Tuesday, nearly half a year after a House panel dominated by President Rodrigo Duterte's allies rejected the network's license application. Read more »

'Respect' each other's policies, Palace says after US sanctions officials threatening journos

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 30 05:41 PM

States "must learn to respect each other’s domestic policies," Malacañang said on Wednesday, after the US approved sanctions for other governments' officials who threaten or wrongfully imprison journalists including Maria Ressa of Rappler, which has reported extensively on President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly war on drugs. Read more »

Campus journalism: The words of Christmas

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Dec 25 09:28 PM

Campus journalism has immensely and profoundly provided the roots of the continued struggle to keep robust and enduring the constitutional cornerstone of free expression. Read more »

Number of journalists killed for their reporting doubled in 2020

Oscar Lopez, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 23 10:19 PM

At least 30 journalists were killed worldwide this year, according to the watchdog group, the Committee to Protect Journalists, with 21 of those killings carried out as a direct response to the reporters’ work, compared to 10 in 2019. Read more »

Bloomberg News employee detained by Chinese authorities

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Dec 12 04:22 AM

Haze Fan, a Chinese citizen, was taken from her home by plainclothes security officials on Monday, Bloomberg said, shortly after she was last in contact with one of her editors. Read more »

End red-tagging journalists: UP's College of Mass Communication seeks release of alumna

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Dec 11 03:32 PM

The University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (CMC) on Friday called for the release of Manila Today journalist Lady Ann “Icy” Salem, who was accused of hiding firearms in her Mandaluyong home.  Read more »

Roque says justice has been served in Ampatuan massacre case

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 23 10:51 PM

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, who once served as legal counsel for some of the victims of the Maguindanao Massacre, believes justice has been served eleven years into the gruesome killings. Read more »

PH out of top 5 deadliest countries for journalists after 10 years, but still 7th most dangerous

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 29 07:26 PM

The Philippines has improved its ranking in terms of solving the cases of slain journalists in 2020, 10 years after being shortlisted among the top 5 deadliest countries for journalists, this year’s Global Impunity Index showed.  Read more »

Amal Clooney to receive press freedom award as lawyer of embattled journalists

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 29 05:40 PM

The award, given by the Committee to Protect Journalist’s board of directors, recognizes the recipient’s “extraordinary and sustained commitment to press freedom.”   Read more »

'Government is afraid': Attacks on media show PH govt's fear of accountability, journalists say

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Oct 24 08:18 AM

“I think it’s the government that is afraid. You have a government that’s very strong, that has the military and the police under its command and it is clamping down on these young reporters… it is threatening the publishers of newspapers, it has closed down the largest TV network. Those are the actions of fear and not strength." Read more »

WHO, Greta or press watchdogs for Nobel Peace Prize?

Pierre-Henry Deshayes, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 07 11:36 AM

The World Health Organization is the bookies' favorite to win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, though experts say Greta Thunberg or press freedom groups are also strong contenders.    Read more »

Duterte rant vs Facebook part of 'media suppression, repression': journalist

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 30 09:13 AM

President Rodrigo Duterte's rant against Facebook is "part of a long trend of media suppression and repression," veteran investigative journalist Sheila Coronel said Wednesday.  Read more »

UNESCO heeds appeal, tags Ampatuan massacre case as 'ongoing/unresolved' despite court verdict

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 25 07:45 PM

MANILA - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) heeded the appeal of stakeholders to reclassify its earlier assessment of the Ampatuan Massacre.  Read more »

Economy to suffer if EU cancels PH trade privileges: MAP

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 22 03:46 PM

The Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) on Tuesday called on the government to talk to the European Parliament over its call to review trade privileges to the country over what it said was “the deteriorating level of press freedom in the Philippines.”   Read more »

Kuwentong Martial Law ni Radyo Patrol Orly Mercado

Abner Mercado, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 21 01:01 PM

Dekada sisenta sa gitna ng maalab na buhay aktibista, pinagsabay ni dating Senador Orlando Mercado ang kaniyang pag-aaral at pagtatrabaho para matustusan ang sarili. Read more »