Updated May 2, 9:13 p.m.
By EMILY VITAL
MANILA A day before the World Press Freedom Day, former National Union of Journalists of the Philippines Director John Heredia was gunned down by motorcycle riding men in barangay Lawa-an Roxas City, Capiz.
According to NUJP, Heredia, also municipal administrator of Pilar, Capiz, was about to board his vehicle when he was attacked.
In an interview with the local media, Heredia’s wife, lawyer Cris Heredia, said the victim was dead on arrival when he was brought to Capiz Doctor’s Hospital.
In September 2019, the victim’s wife survived an attempt on her life. Cris, a member of the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) was red-tagged before the incident.
By MA. ANGELICA GARCIA, GMA News
Published May 2, 2021 6:08pm Editors and reporters of news organizations around the country have joined calls for the Supreme Court to strike down provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020. In a statement on Sunday, the Freedom for Media, Freedom for All (FMFA) Network, which is composed of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), MindaNews, Philippine Press Institute, and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), questioned Section 9 of the ATA titled Inciting to Commit Terrorism. Section 9 of the ATA proscribes speech, proclamations, writings, emblems, and banners that fall under the new crime of inciting to terrorism, imposing a penalty of 12 years in prison, the FMFA said.
3 May is World Press Freedom Day. This is part of a series of IPS features and opinion editorials focused on media freedom globally.
NEW DELHI, India, Apr 30 2021 (IPS) - Every time a woman journalist receives threats of physical and sexual violence, cyber attacks and surveillence, doxxing, public humiliation, damage to her professional & personal credibility, the driving forces behind these intents are deeply rooted misogyny, sexism and abuse of power.
These online offenses are often organized, coordinated or orchestrated, which could include State-sponsored ‘sock puppet networks’, acts of patriotic trolling, networked gaslighting or involves mobs who seed hate campaigns.
According to a report published by The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and UNESCO, vicious online violence seeks to silence women journalists and discredit their reporting has become a growing problem. “Because of their race, sexual orientation and religion, some women face even more frequent
3 May is World Press Freedom Day. This is part of a series of IPS features and opinion editorials focused on media freedom globally.
NEW DELHI, India, Apr 30 2021 (IPS) - Every time a woman journalist receives threats of physical and sexual violence, cyber attacks and surveillence, doxxing, public humiliation, damage to her professional & personal credibility, the driving forces behind these intents are deeply rooted misogyny, sexism and abuse of power.
These online offenses are often organized, coordinated or orchestrated, which could include State-sponsored ‘sock puppet networks’, acts of patriotic trolling, networked gaslighting or involves mobs who seed hate campaigns.
According to a report published by The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and UNESCO, vicious online violence seeks to silence women journalists and discredit their reporting has become a growing problem. “Because of their race, sexual orientation and religion, some women face even more frequent
MANILA, Philippines, April 22 (Philippine Inquirer/ANN) The Philippines is facing “a worse state of press freedom” after it ranked 138th out of 180 countries in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index, the Commission in Human Rights (CHR) said Thursday.
The Philippines placed at 136th from last year’s report released by Reporters sans frontière (Reporters Without Borders).
The report particularly called out President Rodrigo Duterte’s verbal tirades against Inquirer, Rappler, and ABS-CBN.
“The persecution of the media has been accompanied by online harassment campaigns orchestrated by pro-Duterte troll armies, which also launched cyberattacks on alternative news websites and the site of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, in order to block them, ’’ RSF said in its report on the Philippines. The RSF classified the Philippines as having a “bad” environment for journalism.