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MANILA - The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) hailed the decision of Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Dionardo Carlos to designate Col. Roderick Augustus Alba as the focal person in the protection and security of all journalists and media workers during the national elections. Alba, the PNP Public Information Office (PIO) chief, will be assisted by his counterparts in regional offices nationwide. "Gen. Carlos' clear understanding of the role of media to a...

MANILA - The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) hailed the decision of Philippine National Police (PNP) chief General Dionardo Carlos to designate Col. Roderick Augustus Alba as the focal person in the protection and security of all journalists and media workers during the national elections. Alba, the PNP Public Information Office (PIO) chief, will be assisted by his counterparts in regional offices nationwide. "Gen. Carlos' clear understanding of the role of media to a...

The leadership of the Philippine National Police (PNP) has designated all its spokespersons as the focal persons who would ensure the security of journalists who cover the May 2022 local and national elections. At the national level, PNP spokesperson Col. Rhoderick Alba was designated as the focal

The Commission on Human Rights has initiated an investigation into the killing of a radio commentator who was running for a local post in Sultan Kudarat.

(File photo) MANILA - The designation of police personnel as focal persons for media workers who need security assistance is timely and relevant, the Philippine National Police (PNP) said on Thursday. PNP spokesperson, Col. Roderick Alba, made the remark after the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) designated officers of the PNP as media security focal persons in each province and city nationwide to provide a mantle of protection for members of the media who may face threats ...

MANILA - The National Press Club of the Philippines, the country's biggest media organization, welcomed the directive of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to assign police personnel as focal persons for media security. Based on the DILG memorandum signed by Secretary Eduardo M. Ano, the Philippine National Police is directed to designate a focal person for media security who will receive information and respond to any threats leveled against a media worker or any mem...

DILG to PNP: Designate media security focal persons amid election season

TACURONG CITY, SULTAN KUDARAT – Unidentified gunmen shot dead on Wednesday, Jan. 12, a former radio anchor while tending to his vehicle which was being repaired at a car shop in Barangay New Carmen, this city. PLt.Col. Joan Maganto, Tacurong City police chief, identified the victim as Jaynard Angel

Dennis Denora, a Sun.Star reporter and publisher of the Trends and Times community paper, has been shot dead by unidentified killers, according to the Davao chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines. Denora was killed near the wet market of Panabo City in Davao Del Norte on Thursday afternoon, NUJP Davao says. The Davao del Norte Press & Radio-TV Club says in a statement that is is angered and saddened by news of the killing. "His death awakens the anger an...

MANILA - The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) on Wednesday decried the killing of a former radio commentator running for councilor in Tacurong City, Sultan Kudarat by motorcycle "riding-in-tandem" gunmen. "The government condemns in the strongest possible terms the killing of Jaynard Angeles, a candidate in the local election and former station manager of Radyo ni Juan. We will never tolerate any act of violence against any person," Undersecretary Jose Joel ...