Radio show host Niel Jimena, 42, was killed on Negros Island yesterday in a motorcycle chase by two gunmen, AFP and local news reports said. He was reportedly slain near his home in E.B. Magalona town after a car chase. Jimena had hosted a twice-weekly radio show called “Judge” on DYRI-RMN, on which he frequently […]

Television and radio stations are broadcasting live from the trial of alleged perpetrators of the Maguindanao Massacre, the infamous 2009 mass murder of 57 people, including 34 journalists, in Maguindanao, Philippines. For the first time ever, the Philippines Supreme Court granted a petition by media groups to live-broadcast the court proceedings in Manila where former […]

A radio journalist was killed yesterday in the Philippines, the first murder of a journalist since Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino became president of the country on 30 June 2010 promising to fight corruption and impunity. According to IPI’s data, a total of 98 journalists have been killed in the Philippines since 2000 as a consequence of […]

A year after the massacre of 57 people, among them 32 journalists, in the Phillipines province of Maguindanao, justice has yet to be fully served. The killings are alleged to have constituted part of a suspected plot orchestrated by the powerful Ampatuan clan to prevent a rival’s attempt to gain political power. The clan had […]