Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR)

The Senate President filed a libel complaint against a Filipino journalist, over a blog entry in which the journalist implicated the senator in a corruption issue.

Civil society groups call for an end to repression of IFEX member the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety, and urge UNESCO to take action to ensure free expression in Azerbaijan.

More than 100 civil society organisations ask the UN Secretary General to recognise the importance of free expression rights in the sustainable development goals.

The media can & should continue to convey … the necessity of Never Again allowing authoritarian rule in the Philippines. But of even more importance is the need for everyone to monitor the political system that has remained essentially the same despite the 42 years that have passed since Proclamation 1081, and in the process educate the present and future generations in the need to democratise it.

Policemen barred journalists from covering the Ampatuan (Maguindanao) Massacre trial proceedings. No immediate reason was given, though the police said the next day that the incident was a miscommunication between them and the jail management bureau.

A journalist received threatening text messages while he was on-air discussing corruption allegations against the former governor of Northern Samar province, Philippines. He claimed that after which, he noticed three vehicles tailed him after his broadcast and the following day.

CMFR Executive Director reflects on a visit with Chinese investigative journalist Hu Shuli, and the challenges faced by media in China and the Philippines.

Philippines “privacy protection” bill would punish reporting of “personal” matters.