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Tag: Press Freedom

  • Migz Zubiri
    Categories FACT CHECK NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Zubiri falsely claims PH has ‘very free media’ compared to Malaysia, Singapore

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 14, 2022 4:49 PM

    Press freedom in the Philippines does not fare better than Singapore and Malaysia, according to the Paris-based World Press Freedom Index of Reporters Without Borders.

    ABS-CBN, Impunity, Journalism, Malaysia, Media, Migz Zubiri, Philippines, Press Freedom, red-tagging, Reporters Without Borders, Singapore, Vietnam

  • Migz Zubiri
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Zubiri na may ‘napakamalayang media’ ang PH kumpara sa Malaysia, Singapore hindi totoo

    By VERA Files  |  Nov 14, 2022 4:49 PM

    Iginiit na “hindi patas” ang ginawa ng Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) ng United Nations na ipahayag ang kanilang mga alalahanin sa mga ulat ng mga paglabag sa karapatang pantao sa bansa, kabilang ang pagkakapatay sa mamamahayag na si Percy Lapid, maling iginiit ni Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri na ang Pilipinas ay may “napakamalayang media” kumpara sa mga bansang tulad ng Malaysia, Singapore at Vietnam.

    ABS-CBN, Impunity, Journalism, Malaysia, Media, Migz Zubiri, Philippines, Press Freedom, red-tagging, Reporters Without Borders, Singapore, Vietnam

  • Categories News

    Journalism conference highlights disinformation, press freedom attacks under Duterte

    By Celine Samson  |  May 11, 2018 12:16 PM

    The top awards went to stories on press freedom and the effects of the war on drugs.

    disinformation, PJRC, Press Freedom

  • asean pushbacks
    Categories News

    SOUTHEAST ASIA: Time for a Pushback in Media Spaces

    By Johanna Son for Heinrich Böll Stiftung  |  Mar 09, 2018 1:39 PM

    How can societies – well beyond governments – handle the manipulation of information while maintaining the space for professional media to do their work?

    asean, Press Freedom

  • fakenews asean
    Categories News

    SOUTHEAST ASIA: Open Season for Professional Media?

    By Johanna Son for Heinrich Böll Stiftung  |  Mar 09, 2018 11:38 AM

    Even the Philippines is seeing challenges to democratic norms that supposedly have deeper roots there after its 1986 ‘People Power’ revolution.

    asean, Press Freedom

  • Rep. Castro Photo-from-UNTV.jpg
    Categories Commentary

    Curtailing freedom of expression redux

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Jan 23, 2018 8:17 AM

    Moves in the House of Representatives to insert the words “”responsible exercise” in the freedom of speech part in the Constitution’s Bill of Rights is a revival of the same attempt made by the government of Gloria Arroyo in 2006.

    Bill of Rights, Chacha, Press Freedom

  • 02_CMC Candlelighting - Ally Sanga.jpg
    Categories Editor's Pick News

    PHOTOS: Press freedom advocates unite against media attacks

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 19, 2018 10:40 PM

    ​Clad in black, around 350 journalists, students and advocates joined the “Black Friday Protest for Freedom” Jan. 19 in Quezon City in a show of force to defend press freedom.

    black friday protest, Press Freedom

  • SEC decision on Rappler
    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK Fact Sheet News

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: SEC revocation of Rappler’s registration explained

    By VERA Files  |  Jan 15, 2018 8:52 PM

    The SEC decision repeatedly mentions PDRs. What are those?

    Press Freedom, Rappler

  • Categories Top Stories

    Hits and misses in the struggle for free press

    May 03, 2013 11:40 PM

    By DARLENE CAY Fighting for press freedom is like flying a kite, some journalists found out today. Both have hits and misses and their share of disappointments. Journalists from different media organizations flew about a dozen kites to commemorate World Press Freedom Day at the University of the Philippines Diliman Oblation Grounds. Nine kites had […]

    Ampatuan Massacre, Aquino, Freedom House, Impunity, Media, Philippines, Press Freedom

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