Archive for January, 2011
ALERT: Iloilo publisher-editor wounded in attack (PLUS Statement from NUJP-Iloilo)
Lemuel Fernandez, publisher-editor of the Iloilo-based Western Visayas Daily Guardian, suffered a head injury after an unknown assailant hit him on the head with a hard object around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Francis Allan Angelo, the newspaper’s managing editor, said he and Fernandez had just finished editing Thursday’s issue of the newspaper and were about to board their [...]
ALERT: RMN Palawan commentator shot dead
Dr. Gerardo Ortega, commentator of RMN Palawan and staunch critic of the current governor and of mining operations in the island province, was shot on the head and died on the spot. The incident happened inside a garments’ shop in Puerto Princesa City at past 11 am today. Ortega was the anchor of the daily [...]
STATEMENT: How to breed impunity
It has been a year since Iligan City Councilor Chonilo Ruiz barged into the announcer’s booth of radio station dxRJ and mauled Albert Loyola as he anchored the morning program “Radyo Patrol.” It has been a year since this brazen display of abuse of power, which was broadcast live to the audience of dxRJ. It [...]
ALERT: Quezon journalist harassed by police colonel during coverage of captured NPA
Johnny Glorioso, reporter of radio station dzMM and publisher of the local paper Ang Diaryo Natin, reported to the NUJP Media Safety Office of being manhandled by an intelligence officer. Glorioso said he went to the office of the Quezon PNP provincial director yesterday January 5 at around 8:10 am to make a follow up [...]
