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The UN special rapporteur (UNSR) on freedom of expression urges the Philippine government to eliminate an anticommunist task force, known as National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), which is accused of jeopardizing the…
MANILA, Philippines — Conrado de Quiros, a longtime Philippine Daily Inquirer columnist, has died, his brother, public relations practitioner Paul de Quiros, announced in a Facebook post late on Monday, November 6, 2023. “With profound sadness, we…
PARIS — Journalists had fun last year asking the shiny new AI chatbot ChatGPT to write their columns, most concluding that the bot was not good enough to take their jobs. Yet. But many commentators believe journalism…
A most profound question one writer asked a revolutionary fighter, who survived the battle of his life, was not how bloody difficult it was or how he won the battle. It was: “Were you afraid?” Were you…
FIFTY years is a long time, long enough for memories to fade. But what happened on September 21, 1972, will stand out despite the years because the dictatorship that followed was not mere chismis (gossip). On that…
MANILA, Philippines — UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said countries should consider decriminalizing defamation, as several member-states of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) flagged the alleged “increasing criticism and intimidation” of journalists in…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — In this time of the coronavirus pandemic, even responding to fire alarms will now have to be covered by certain protocols. The Cebu City Fire Department made this known on Tuesday, May 5,…
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – After waiting in anguish for ten years, Cathy Nunez and some of the families of the 32 journalist killed in the Ampatuan massacre in 2009 will be in Manila to hear the…
MANILA, Philippines — Forty-one journalists from different news organizations on Tuesday filed a petition for intervention asking the Supreme Court (SC) to lift President Rodrigo Duterte’s coverage ban against online news site Rappler. The petition was lodged…
WASHINGTON – Journalists faced growing dangers of being targeted for killing for their work in 2018 even as the risks from war and conflict declined, a media watchdog said Wednesday. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said…
NEW YORK — Time Magazine named four journalists and a newspaper on Tuesday as its 2018 Person of the Year for standing up for the truth in the face of persecution and violence. The group, which Time…
The president of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP)- Cebu Chapter encourages broadcasters and journalists to gather news in pairs or groups for their safety amid threats against media practitioners. Fr. Roberto Ebisa, KBP-Cebu Chapter…
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