VERA Files
Jonathan De Santos of PhilStar.com was never a member of the CPP-NPA-NDF.
Si Jonathan De Santos ay hindi kailanman naging miyembro ng CPP-NPA-NDF.
For Filipino journalists, doing their job means treading a minefield. But doing the job is not just assessing the risks. Part of it is knowing safety protocols in a landscape where reports that are critical of politicians meet libel charges, state leaders hurl verbal attacks against journalists, death threats are plentiful, and worse, the death toll of slain journalists is rising to the hundreds.
Even prior to his presidency, Duterte has attacked the media on several occasions.
Candles were lit once again last Friday at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani to mark the unrelenting quest for justice for the victims in one of the darkest periods in the country’s history.
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte on Sept. 10 told the media to go ahead and criticize him and his government’s shortcomings, saying it is their sworn duty. Not so long ago, he dared reporters to kill and stop journalism in this country. STATEMENT: Straight from the recently concluded Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Vientiane, […]
President Rodrigo Duterte on Sept. 10 told the media to go ahead and criticize him and his government’s shortcomings, saying it is their sworn duty. Not so long ago, he dared reporters to kill and stop journalism in this country.
THE National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) has expressed grave concern over the increasing harassment of journalists who are covering the election campaign and asked the candidates to call for calm among their supporters. NUJP chair Ryan D. Rosauro said the NUJP, in its monitoring of the plight of journalists in the campaign trail, […]
Text and Photos by VINCENT GO
VARIOUS media groups, along with individual journalists, bloggers and press freedom advocates continue to challenge the constitutionality of the government’s new Cybercrime Prevention Law.