16. February 2022 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights News
As the coverage of the upcoming elections intensified, so did online attacks on journalists and the press. An upsurge in offensive posts on social media is closely linked to election events according to research by the news site Rappler – for example, during the...
21. December 2021 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights News
Once again, a journalist was murdered. Jesus Malabanan was shot dead at home in his small store in Calbayong City, Samar, in the early evening hours of Dec. 8, 2021. Malabanan had long worked for the British news agency Reuters, and also for The Manila Times, as a...
21. December 2021 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights News
Once again, a journalist was murdered. Jesus Malabanan was shot dead at home in his small store in Calbayong City, Samar, in the early evening of Dec. 8, 2021. Malabanan had long worked for the British news agency Reuters, and also for The Manila Times, as a...
23. November 2021 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights Defenders, Human Rights News
On October 30, 2021, journalist Orlando Dinoy was killed with six gunshots in his apartment in Balsan, Davao del Sur. He was a reporter for Newsline Philippines, an anchor at Radio Energy FM in Digos City, and had worked for SunStar Davao with the Philippine Daily...
15. October 2021 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights News
On October 8, 2021, the Nobel Committee in Oslo awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the first time in 86 years to two journalists: Philippine journalist Maria Ressa and her Russian colleague Dmitry Muratov. In doing so, the committee recognized Ressa’s efforts in...
19. July 2021 | Freedom of Press, Human Rights News
Reporters Sans Frontière (RSF; Reporters Without Borders) published its list of global “Press freedom predators” on July 5, 2021. This year Rodrigo Duterte was listed for the first time as a “predator since taking office,” alongside 36 other...
