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Kathleen Okubo was deeply rooted in the Baguio press and contributed significantly to the Cordillera media community

Baguio City Council recommends that perpetrators of red-tagging and political vilification be held accountable

'While we at CPA continue to seek legal remedies... in this shrinking democratic space, the state also weaponizes everything at its disposal to silence us,' says the Cordillera Peoples Alliance

The resolution of the Kalinga Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC) dated April 28 urged all cities and municipalities in Kalinga to "require all entities presenting themselves as Non-Government Organizations (NGO)" to secure permission from the local government before conducting any activity.

The Philippine media landscape remains largely grim despite the change in the country’s leadership in mid-2022. Attacks on journalists, which escalated during the six-year presidency of Rodrigo Duterte, have not let up since Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office.

A new study on news consumption patterns has found that more Filipinos are wary of expressing their political views compared to the global average, coinciding with concerns that civic space in the Philippines is shrinking.

DESPITE ASSURANCES from the new President, attacks against critics of the government and their families are still making headlines in TV, print, and o

“This libel case is an attack on truth and those who wield it to champion peoples' political rights.”

CMFR/PHILIPPINES – Sherwin De Vera, managing editor of Northern Dispatch, was red-tagged in a Facebook post on August 12. FB user Allen Dondon u

President Rodrigo Duterte opened his six-year presidency with a threat - that journalists are not exempted from assassination “if you’re a son of bitch” - about a month before he was inaugurated into power. This cemented his hostility towards the media. And it did not end here.