By Mariejo Ramos via Reuters, Interaksyon.philstar.com, July 12, 2023 – 3:13 PM MANILA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — When hackers targeted independent Filipino news outlet Bulatlat.com, flooding its website with a torrent of rogue traffic, staff had to rely on digital forensics experts in Sweden to track down the perpetrators. “Building the case means you must…
Philstar.com, June 15, 2022 MANILA, Philippines — There is nothing wrong with reporting on peasant rights and other issues of public, journalists said after the Philippine National Police questioned the presence of media workers at a land cultivation activity in Tarlac. Eleven journalists, including nine campus journalists, were among those arrested during a ‘bungkalan’ (land cultivation)…
May 4, 2022, Sofia Guanzon Philippine journalists have been facing intensified attacks on multiple fronts during this particular election season, says a press freedom study MANILA, Philippines – Independent media in the Philippines has been combating various forms of attacks while also fighting disinformation online, that it needs a “societal response” to the scourge of…
By: Krixia Subingsubing – Reporter /Philippine Daily Inquirer / October 30, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines remains one of the deadliest countries in the world for journalists, according to a global media watchdog report released on Friday, which again highlighted the dangers faced by media professionals working under hostile governments or weak criminal justice…
Sep 15, 2021, Manny Mogato It was like a Pearl Harbor experience. Bombs dropped on a Sunday night as I was deeply sleeping. Unlike the December 1941 sneaky Japanese raid, there was no physical destruction, only that I was virtually incapacitated. Upon waking up on Monday morning, I realized that Facebook had banned me from liking,…
Jul 19, 2021 Gelo Gonzales MANILA, Philippines About 50,000 phone records are found in a leaked list of surveillance targets by government clients around the world Governments around the world have been found to have used spyware called Pegasus – made by Israel’s NSO Group – to spy on civilians including journalists and human rights…
By: Cathrine Gonzales – Reporter, INQUIRER.net /November 02, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Several media and human rights groups on Monday condemn violence against media workers in the country as they called out the government for adopting an “unwritten policy of lawfare” that they said boosted the climate of impunity. In a statement coinciding the 2020…
We, the undersigned journalists, editors and workers from different media organizations, express our solidarity with thousands of our colleagues in ABS-CBN who risk losing their jobs after the House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Franchises denied the network a fresh 25-year franchise. We condemn the unjust and cruel decision of the House committee that threatens…