The first trials relating to the Philippines’ worst-ever political massacre – in which 32 journalists were also slain – started today. A total of 57 people were slaughtered in the southern province of Maguindanao in November 2009. The 32 journalists were part of a convoy intercepted by over 100 gunmen at a roadside checkpoint in […]

A Filipino journalist was killed on Saturday, bringing the number of media workers killed in the country to three in just five days. Nestor Bedolido, 50, was shot at close range by two men on a motorcycle in Digos City, Davao del Sur, in the south of the Philippines.  News agencies reported that Bedolido was […]

Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed journalist Joselito Agustin, a reporter and anchorman for the Filipino radio station DZJC Aksyon Radyo, on his way home on Wednesday in Laoag city. Agustin’s killing is the second murder of a journalist in the Philippines within 24 hours. On Monday evening, Desidario Camangyan of Sunshine FM […]

As many as 12 journalists have been confirmed dead in a massacre of more than 21 people in the Philippines, the country’s National Union of Journalists reported on Monday. The journalists were part of a convoy traveling to file candidacy papers for gubernatorial candidate and local mayor Esmael Mangudadatu in the southern province of Maguindanao, […]