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[Title] => Protect media, GMA urged
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Alarmed by the recent murder of a journalist and the slay-try on another, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) called on President Arroyo yesterday to make good its promise to protect members of the media and punish their attackers.
The call came in the wake of the killing of Radyo ng Bayan field reporter Carmelo Palacios, and the attempted murder of Philippine Daily Inquirer correspondent Delfin Mallari Jr.
Palacios was found dead in Sta Rosa, Nueva Ecija last April 17.
[DatePublished] => 2007-04-22 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Cesar Ramirez And Dino Balabo
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[Title] => IFJ calls on RP to revise libel law
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BAGUIO CITY – An international group of journalists renewed its call for reforms in the Philippines’ libel law yesterday.
"It is an affront to the Philippines’ freedom of speech that libel remains a criminal offense," said Christopher Warren, president of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
Warren’s statement came after an editor spent the night in a police station, and along with four other media workers, was forced to post more than P10,000 over a P10 million libel suit.
[DatePublished] => 2007-03-14 00:00:00
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[Title] => Nueva Ecija radio reporter wounded in gun attack
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BAGUIO CITY — A correspondent of a Nueva Ecija radio station was wounded after he was shot while on his way home aboard a tricycle last Friday, authorities said.
The attack on Rufino Gamboa, of radio station dzMM, came a day after the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), reacting to last Wednesday’s killing of Ilocos Norte radioman Andres Acosta, asked President Arroyo to put an end to the "senseless" killings of journalists in the country.
[DatePublished] => 2006-12-25 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao
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[Title] => Maliksi to media rights groups: Don’t protect ‘bogus journalists’
[Summary] => TRECE MARTIRES CITY — Cavite Gov. Ayong Maliksi appealed to media rights groups not to condemn him for filing libel cases against three weekly community newspapers which he said have discredited his name, caused him dishonor and embarrassment, and calculated to take away the support, sympathy and patronage of his constituency.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-11 00:00:00
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[Title] => IFJ worried over media crackdown in Iran
[Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed deep concern over pressure on journalists in Iran who travel overseas and are suspected by their government to be spying.
The IFJ affiliate Association of Iranian Journalists (AIJ) said Iran’s Minister of Information released a statement this week saying the government’s intelligence service had found that the West was recruiting journalists, students and workers to spy by sending them overseas under the guise of research or study.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-26 00:00:00
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[Title] => Razon: 60% of PNP men live below poverty line
[Summary] => Up to 60 percent of policemen live below the poverty line and most of them live in squalid slums, Philippine National Police (PNP) Deputy Director General Avelino Razon said yesterday.
"How do you expect these men to maintain the law when they live in squatter camps alongside criminals?" Razon asked during a media forum discussing the recent murders of journalists.
The Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres, in its 2006 annual report, said that "after Iraq, the Philippines is the most dangerous country for journalists."
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-03 00:00:00
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[Title] => NBI vows to convict Aurora scribe’s killers
[Summary] => DINGALAN, Aurora — The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) vowed to prosecute and convict the people behind the gunslaying of Aurora publisher-editor Philip Agustin.
Pedro Roque Jr., head of the NBI team investigating the murder of Agustin, publisher of Starline Times Recorder, said they have gathered solid evidence against the suspects.
Agustin, who was shot inside his home here about a year ago, had published exposés on alleged anomalies in the Dingalan municipal government headed by Mayor Jaime Ylarde.
[DatePublished] => 2006-05-17 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Ding Cervantes
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[Title] => EDITORYAL – Maraming pinapatay na journalists at iilan lang ang naparurusahan
[Summary] => SAMPU na ang napapatay na journalists ngayong 2005. Ang pinakahuling napatay na journalist ay si George Benaojan, broadcaster ng radio station dyDD at columnist ng Bantay Balita sa Talisay, Cebu. Ang 2005 ang sinasabing pinakamadugo sa buhay ng mga journalists.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-07 00:00:00
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[Title] => ‘2005 turning into another devastating year for press freedom’
[Summary] => An international group of journalists see 2005 as "another devastating year for press freedom."
"These killings are not just a terrible pain to bear for media in the Philippines," said Christopher Warren, International Federation of Journalists president.
Warren’s reaction came following the shooting to death of George Benaojan, a broadcaster of radio station dyDD and columnist of Bantay Balita in Talisay City, Cebu late last week.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-06 00:00:00
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[Title] => International group of journalists expresses concern over latest murders
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BAGUIO CITY — The murder of two journalists in a span of just 60 hours proves that the Philippines continues to be a dangerous environment for the media, the International Federation of Journalists said.
"These recent deaths are further evidence of the incredibly dangerous environment that journalists work within in the Philippines," said IFJ president Christopher Warren in a statement sent to news organizations worldwide.
Warren said President Arroyo should take immediate and decisive action to bring an end to violence against journalists.
[DatePublished] => 2005-11-23 00:00:00
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