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Zambales barangay official in hot water for 'verbally assaulting' Inquirer reporter
A barangay kagawad makes threats to correspondent Joanna Rose Aglibot and her family, prompting the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines to issue an alert

NUJP says Roque owes CNN Philippines, reporter an apology
'Officials who earn public ire for their pronouncements should not blame journalists who are merely doing their jobs,' says the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines

Former NUJP chair red-tagged in social media post
The post tries to link former NUJP chair Rowena 'Weng' Carranza-Paraan to the New People’s Army using a photo at a media safety training in 2013

NUJP urges Filipinos resist closure order vs ABS-CBN in online candle-lighting protest
'Even as our people battle a deadly pandemic, it carries out an underhanded assault on freedom of the press and of expression,' NUJP says in a statement

NUJP slams Calida's threat vs ABS-CBN during pandemic
NUJP counters the solicitor general by highlighting the media network's crucial role during the coronavirus outbreak

NUJP submits signature campaign for ABS-CBN franchise renewal to Senate
NUJP and various groups gather to fight for press freedom, democracy, and workers' rights as the Senate hears issues pertaining to the ABS-CBN franchise

WATCH: NUJP, ABS-CBN staff protest Calida's quo warranto petition
Journalists cry for press freedom hours after Solicitor General Jose Calida files a quo warranto petition to void ABS-CBN's franchise

Journalists, advocates call on Filipinos to back ABS-CBN franchise renewal
(UPDATED) NUJP and other groups say the attack on ABS-CBN threatens citizens' right to know

NUJP launches signature campaign against ABS-CBN shutdown
ABS-CBN's franchise expires on March 30, 2020. Congress has sat on the franchise renewal bills amid President Duterte's threat to block a new franchise

NUJP urges Filipinos to uphold press freedom amid attacks vs ABS-CBN
The group also decries President Rodrigo Duterte’s fresh tirade hurled against broadcast giant ABS-CBN

NUJP: Despite Ampatuan conviction, fight is not yet over
'We must soldier on until the last of those responsible are behind bars,' the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines says

Media orgs unite, ask SC for live coverage of Ampatuan judgment
'Allowing live coverage would allow families unable to travel to Manila to immediately hear the decision of the 58 counts of murder of Judge Jocelyn Solis Reyes,' says the petition signed by media organizations
Bacolod journos call for vigilance as verdict on Maguindanao massacre nears
Officials and members of the Negros Press Club and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines-Bacolod chapter light candles to mark the death anniversary of the Maguindanao massacre

NUJP chair ‘confident’ Ampatuans will be convicted
An acquittal, says National Union of Journalists of the Philippines' Nonoy Espina, would have grave implications not just on press freedom but on the electoral process

Rappler Talk: NUJP's Nonoy Espina on the 10th anniversary of the Maguindanao massacre
What has happened in the 10 years since the Maguindanao massacre?

Rappler's Bacolod correspondent tailed by 'suspicious' man
The man, who was aboard a motorcycle, followed journalist Marchel Espina for almost 18 kilometers

NUJP hails 'show of unity' of Cagayan de Oro journalists against red-tagging
Media groups in Cagayan de Oro destroy a streamer red-tagging organizations, which was hung by unidentified persons on the first day of the city's Press Freedom Week

Malacañang orders Rappler correspondent kicked out of PDP-Laban’s CDO rally
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines also documents how Bobby Lagsa was 'evicted' from the event hours before President Duterte arrived

Rappler, NUJP ask Duterte to lift coverage ban
The now one-year order of President Rodrigo Duterte to ban Rappler from covering his events 'has gone on too long,' says the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines

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PhilStar.com takedown of Keng story 'unfortunate' – NUJP
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines says the article takedown proves that government's 'twisting the law' has a chilling effect on media

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Baguio council backs NUJP bid to exempt journalists as drug case witnesses
Baguio City Vice Mayor Edison Bilog says the council wants 'to protect the integrity and welfare of media practitioners'

Riding-in-tandem gunmen kill radio announcer in Negros Oriental
(UPDATED) Police suspect radio announcer Gabriel 'Kumander Aguila' Alburo was killed over a cockfighting bet but are looking at other motives for the attack as well

NUJP: Maria Ressa’s Time honor recognizes 'tenacity of PH press'
'The selection of Maria is a recognition of the resistance and tenacity of the Philippine press in upholding truth and fighting for the freedom of the Press and expression,' says the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines

Signature drive launched vs tapping journalists as drug operations witnesses
The police practice of pressuring media practitioners to sign anti-drug operation reports as witnesses puts them in physical danger and in conflict-of-interest situations. #PHnews

Journalists slam PNP over door-to-door bid for good coverage
'Government forces must never harass, intimidate, or attack journalists who are just doing their jobs,' says the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines

Patricia Fox, Tito Sotto, PNP vs. ‘tambays’ | Evening wRap
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Sotto says Inquirer will remove articles on Pepsi Paloma
(UPDATED) 'They will [take it down]... because it's fake news. It's [the] original fake news,' says Senate President Vicente Sotto III

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Sotto asks Inquirer to remove articles on Pepsi Paloma
(UPDATED) The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines denounces Sotto's request, saying it is a 'brazen attempt to suppress freedom of the press and of expression'

NUJP to gov't: Don't require media as witness in anti-drug operations
The presence of media in anti-illegal drugs raids and apprehensions should be limited to 'coverage for journalism purposes,' the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines says in a resolution

Media groups record 85 attacks on press freedom under Duterte
'Separately and together, these 85 cases have made the practice of journalism an even more dangerous endeavor under Duterte,' says Malou Mangahas, executive director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism

[OPINION] Speak truth to power, keep power in check
Whoever is president, the paramount duty of a free press in a democracy is to defend and uphold the people's right to know, with unqualified courage and unity

NUJP to Duterte: 'Shame on you for displaying extreme pettiness'
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines says President Rodrigo Duterte 'has acted much like a petulant child throwing a fit' when he banned Rappler's Pia Ranada from Palace coverage

NUJP slams Roque as 'fake news peddler'
NUJP says Roque 'has acquired a penchant for accusing media of making him look bad by doing what they ought to – reporting his pronouncements accurately with the proper context and background'

‘That’s a crime’: Duterte hit for blackmailing media
‘We should not allow that we will be silenced...because once they succeed, all of us will be silenced,’ NUJP president Noynoy Espina reminds journalists during a #BlackFridayForPressFreedom forum in Bacolod

NUJP slams cyberattack on Kodao Productions' website
Kodao.org is known for covering the peace process between the Philippine government and the NDFP, as well as issues about indigenous peoples, human rights, environmental issues

Pro-democracy organization slams writers group for ‘casting aspersions without evidence'
The group Let’s Organize for Democracy and Integrity (LODI) says the letter of the 'concerned writers from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao' posted online 'cast doubt and aspersion without evidence' against Rappler

Joel Lamangan calls for press freedom at NUJP Black Friday gathering
The director slams the current administration, saying its actions are indicative of a return to dictatorship

Fight for press freedom: Join the NUJP Black Friday protest on January 19
(UPDATED) Wear black wherever you are or join the rally at the Boy Scout Circle, the roundabout at Timog and Tomas Morato intersection in Quezon City, on Friday at 6 pm

Journalist groups hit SEC decision vs Rappler
(2nd UPDATE) The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism says the 'harsh' ruling has 'horrifying implications on the full and untrammeled exercise of press freedom'

NUJP backs Rappler journalist, slams 'hollow block' threat
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines denounces the 'patent ignorance and arrogance' of dwIZ host and pro-Duterte blogger RJ Nieto

NUJP calls out Duterte’s legal counsel for ‘lechery and misogyny’
In an interview with journalists Karin Wenger and Ana Santos, Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo says he is ‘better in bed’ and that ‘I fuck like an 18-year old’

Broadcaster killed in ambush in Surigao del Sur
(UPDATED) The fatal ambush on Christopher Iban Lozada happened after he received death threats, some of which he posted on his Facebook page, says the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines

NUJP hits Thinking Pinoy blogger RJ Nieto as 'barefaced liar'
'That Nieto did all this under oath should have earned him a perjury charge or a contempt citation at the very least,' says the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines

Surigao del Norte vice mayor punches, chokes newspaper editor
Dapa Mayor Francisco Matugas Gonzales attacks Edito Mapayo, editor-in-chief of 'Diaryo Balita,' for an unfavorable article published 2 years ago in another paper

NUJP to Aguirre: Media won't be scapegoats for your 'lies'
Trying to blame others for your blunders unmasks you as a mean spirited coward the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines tells Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II

PH media groups release Facebook fake news blocker
Now available at the Chrome Web Store Fakeblok is the result of a collaboration between the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility
Only a tyrant would shut down the media – NUJP
If there is a time for the Philippine media community to set aside our differences and unite to oppose any and all attempts to silence us it is now the NUJP says reacting to Duterte s threat to ABS CBN