Archive for November, 2013

ON THE EVE OF THE 4th anniversary of the Maguindanao Massacre, Presidential spokesman Herminio Coloma Jr. downplayed statistics from media groups that showed that media killings had grown worse during the administration of President Benigno S. Aquino...

ON THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY of the Maguindanao Massacre, government prosecutors say they have already presented to the court all the evidence they need to convict former Maguindanao Governor Andal Ampatuan Sr. and his sons for the Maguindanao...

The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism has produced an 8-minute video version of the story 23 Journalists Killed in 40 Months under PNoy, published Thursday on the PCIJ website. The video details the alarming increase in the number of media...

IN COMMEMORATION of the fourth anniversary of the Ampatuan massacre, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ), together with other media organizations such as the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) and the National Union of...

SUPERTYHOON YOLANDA (international name Haiyan) has rendered all radio stations and local media outlets in Leyte province inoperable, and caused significant damage to many other media outlets throughout the Visayas. The supertyphoon has also so far...

THE NATION marks tomorrow, Nov. 23, the fourth anniversary of the Maguindanao Massacre, where 32 journalists were killed in the worst single-day act of violence against the media ever recorded in history. In part to honor the memory of the massacre...

FOR THE first time in the Philippines' history of jurisprudence, the Supreme Court en banc reversed three separate rulings that it had itself issued in 1994, 2001, and 2012: It voted on Tuesday, Nov. 19, to declare as unconstitutional the use of pork...