An unidentified gunman killed a Filipino photographer yesterday evening, the third murder of a journalist in the country in a 48-hour period this week. Local media reported that a man entered the General Santos City home of Mario Sy and shot him twice in front of his wife and daughter. Sy, 53, was taken to […]

With at least 119* journalists killed, 2013 was the second deadliest year on the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch, which started systematically counting work-related journalist deaths in 1997. The worst year was 2012, with 133* killed, 39 alone while covering the Syrian conflict. As IPI noted last month, impunity for attacks on journalists remained […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed alarm at Thursday’s killing of a journalist in the Philippines, the sixth killed in just over a month and the second slain in the country in just a week. According to the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), Vergel Bico, editor and publisher of the Kalahi newspaper, […]

The International Press Institute today urged Philippine authorities to step up their investigation into the killing of a veteran newspaper journalist who was shot multiple times in an attack at her home last week. Rubylita Garcia, who had worked for the daily Remate for 20 years, was shot in front of her son and 10-year-old […]