Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:10:48 +0000
A free press helps guard government institutions, and attempts to silence and intimidate watchdogs may have a chilling effect on press freedom, Sen. Grace Poe warned.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 05:29:02 +0000
The “chilling effect” of criminalizing journalism, Binay said, should never be helplessly accepted as a “convenient necessity to silence those who speak against the status quo.”
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 06:05:30 +0000
Malacañang denied Thursday that the government was behind the campaign to vilify the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) by linking them to communist rebels.
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Messages of solidarity poured in from around the world on the one-year anniversary of the arrest of two Myanmar Reuters journalists.
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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey on Friday intensified its demands for Saudi Arabia to extradite 18 suspects in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a call that is likely to be met with resistance from the kingdom and could escalate tensions between the U.S.-allied regional powers.
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The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China said on Wednesday that the foreign ministry had “effectively” ejected BuzzFeed News’s Beijing bureau chief from the country after declining to renew her visa.
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The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-Ifra), has been given to Maria Ressa, cofounder, chief executive officer and executive editor of online news site Rappler.
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Bitter rivals North and South Korea are on talking terms again, but their surprising cordiality still has moments of awkwardness, such when a senior North Korean official scolded a South Korean reporter over a question he didn’t like.
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