Aldion Layao, a former radio journalist and currently a village council chairman was shot dead in Davao city on April 8, according to media reports. Layao was on his way home with a relative in a car, when he was shot by two unidentified men on a motorcycle. He was hit twice in the neck […]

The publisher of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Isagani Yambot, a long-time member of the International Press Institute (IPI), passed away on Friday, March 3, succumbing to a heart attack. He was 77 years old. Yambot, known in the Philippines for his staunch defence of press freedom and independent journalism, enjoyed great respect among journalists and […]

In a landmark ruling that could have global implications, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) has found that the conviction of a Philippines journalist on charges of criminal defamation violated the journalist’s right to free expression. The Committee said that the nearly five-year prison sentence imposed on Alexander Adonis of Bombo Radyo in Davao […]

In 2011, 12-31  journalists were killed because of their work, according to the International Press Institute (IPI) Death Watch. Reporters and cameramen faced a range of threats. Some were in the wrong place at the wrong time, on the job when natural disaster struck or bombs exploded. But almost all of the journalists killed in […]