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Tag: world press freedom day

  • FACT SHEET: ‘Supercharged’ Philippine journalists
    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: ‘Supercharged’ Philippine journalists

    By VERA Files  |  May 03, 2023 9:16 PM

    President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos recently said his government will “remain committed to ensuring transparency and good governance, freedom of expression and of the press, and the protection of media practitioners and their rights in the practice of their profession.” Speaking at the 50th anniversary of the Kapisanan ng Mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas on April 27, […]

    journalists, world press freedom day

  • FACT SHEET: ‘Supercharged’ Philippine journalists
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT SHEET: ‘Supercharged’ na mga mamamahayag na Filipino

    By VERA Files  |  May 03, 2023 9:16 PM

    Sa paggunita ngayong taon ng World Press Freedom Day, pinagsama-sama ng VERA Files Fact Check ang mga kaso na inihain laban sa mahigit 90 mamamahayag na Filipino mula 2007 hanggang 2022. Sa 45 na kaso, 32 ang isinampa ng mga dati at kasalukuyang opisyal ng gobyerno.

    mamamahayag, world press freedom day

  • Retired ICC Judge Raul Pangalangan
    Categories News PHL Vote 2022

    World Press Freedom Day: Disinformation the new guns, goons, and gold

    By AGATHA MATEO and VALERIE NUVAL  |  May 04, 2022 10:16 AM

    Press freedom advocates lamented that the utilization of  systematic and deliberate disinformation has not only threatened democracy, but it also “uses hard-earned liberties to kill democracy itself.”

    cyberattack, disinformation, Elections 2022, world press freedom day

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    Categories Editor's Pick News

    ​ Press freedom ‘depends on the people’ – CMFR director

    By Enrico Berdos  |  May 03, 2021 10:00 PM

    Journalists in the country continue to face many threats today and freedom of the press will depend on how much support it gets from the people, according to Melinda Quintos-De Jesus, executive director of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR).

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    Categories News

    News consumers now value personal loyalty more than facts, veteran journalist laments

    By Blanch Marie C. Ancla  |  May 03, 2021 9:10 PM

    Veteran broadcast journalist Howie Severino lamented on Monday, May 3, that the role of journalists in society has become more challenging as most news consumers now regard the values of truth, facts and evidence in journalism as secondary only to loyalty to a person, ideology and institution.

    Howie Severino, world press freedom day, WPF 2021

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    Unsolved media killings keep PH 3rd most dangerous place for journalists – CPJ

    May 03, 2013 2:21 PM

    By MARK PERE MADRONA

    The unsolved and unpunished killings of media people in past years have kept the Philippines in third place among countries listed as the most dangerous in the world for journalists.

    CPJ, impunity index, world press freedom day

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