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MANILA-In observance of World Press Freedom Day, the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) went all out of its mandate to protect media workers by meeting with local journalists in several key regions all over the country to discuss ways and means to promote media safety. Undersecretary Joel M. Sy Egco, Executive Director of PTFoMS, said the task force held several and sometimes simultaneous consultative meetings with local journalists in various regions in the past week for the pro...

(PNA file photo) MANILA-As the leading agency in safeguarding press freedom, the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) through its Executive Director, Undersecretary Joel M. Sy Egco, thanked President Rodrigo Roa Duterte for signing the much-awaited law declaring August 30 as the country's "National Press Freedom Day". "All our hard work and efforts have paid off. As a veteran journalist myself, I have worked together with our media friends such as the Katipunan n...

Filipino journalists commemorated World Press Freedom Day with a warning against the increasing attacks against the Philippine independent media and concerns on the upcoming elections.

Authorities are still facing a blank wall in their investigation into the shooting of two radiomen in Cebu.

Presidential Task Force on Media Security Executive Director and Undersecretary Joel M. Sy Egco (File photo) MANILA - Undersecretary Joel M. Sy Egco, executive director of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS), supports the move of the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) in urging the Supreme Court (SC) to have former Palawan governor Mario Joel Reyes rearrested for the murder of environmentalist and broadcaster Dr. Gerry Ortega. In a statement, Egco, as head of the task force...

MANILA - Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco, Executive Director of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS), on Friday warned that Facebook's repeated attempts to censor and restrict the posts of government officials creates a chilling effect in the world of social media. Egco issued the statement after the US-based tech giant recently warned National Security Adviser (NSA) Hermogenes Esperon Jr. for a post that urged Filipinos to unite against the 53-year-old communist insurgency tha...

Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco, Executive Director of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security(middle) (PNA photo by Avito Dalan) MANILA - Undersecretary Joel Sy Egco, Executive Director of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS), lauded the Philippine National Police (PNP) for the arrest of Datu Harris Ampatuan in Cotabato City, one of the suspects in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre. "I commend the men and women from the PNP's Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (...

A suspect in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre was killed in an alleged shootout with law enforcers while another was arrested on Thursday.

(Photo courtesy of CIDG) MANILA -The Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) on Thursday announced the arrest of another suspect in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in Cotabato City. In a statement sent to reporters, the CIDG said Datu Harris Ampatuan Macapendeng, the incumbent Barangay Chairperson of Tuayan, Datu Hoffer town in Maguindanao province with a monetary reward of PHP300,000 under DILG Memo Circular 2010-76, has been arrested by personnel of the C...

Philippine National Police (PNP) Deputy Chief for Administration Lt. Gen. Rhodel Sermonia. (Screengrab from RTVM video) CEBU CITY - The second highest official of the Philippine National Police (PNP) on Wednesday called for a unified force to fight attempts to disrupt the May 9 elections and to resist any forms of destabilization of the government. Lt. Gen. Rhodel Sermonia, PNP deputy chief for administration, underscored the need to intensify measures that counter the efforts of the Communist P...