Statement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ)
on the killing of Christopher “Cris” Guarin

THE KILLING of General Santos newspaper publisher and RMN blocktimer Christopher Guarin hardly a week since the new year began is one more indication of the persistence of the culture of impunity that encourages the killing of journalists and media workers in the Philippines.

Statement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists on the Denial of the Petition for Certiorari and Prohibition filed by the alleged masterminds in the killing of Marlene Esperat

TweetSEVERAL MEDIA, media advocacy organizations and journalism professors and students led by the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) are urging President Benigno Aquino III to take concrete steps to stop human rights violations and the continuing killing and harassment of journalists and political activists. The Manila newspaper BusinessWorld, students and professors of the University [...]

TweetStatement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists, National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and the November 23 Movement March 2, 2011 THE AMPATUAN Massacre trial has entered a crucial phase. This week, barely two weeks after the 15th month since 58 men and women including 32 journalists and media workers were brutally murdered [...]

TweetStatement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR) on the 15th month since the Ampatuan Massacre of November 23, 2009 THE TRIAL of those formally accused in the Ampatuan Massacre, numbering 51 out of the 195 individuals suspected of involvement in it, is ongoing and should be discouraging the further killing of journalists.  [...]

TweetStatement of the FFFJ on the murder complaint against the alleged masterminds in the killing of Gerry Ortega The Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists Inc. (FFFJ) calls for the prompt preliminary investigation of the murder complaint against the alleged masterminds in the killing of Palawan-based broadcaster and environment activist Gerardo “Doc Gerry” Ortega. This follows [...]

TweetLAST 22 November 2010, the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ) announced the finalists and winners in the Impunity and Press Freedom: The 2010 Multimedia Competition. Finalists and winners received a total of P110,000.00 in cash and certificates. The FFFJ, through its secretariat, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), with the cooperation of [...]

Tweet The Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ), through its secretariat, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), with the cooperation of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication (UP-CMC), will launch on Wednesday, September 29 a multimedia competition to mark the first anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre. The competition is open [...]

TweetStatement of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility on the Agra order to drop the multiple murder charges against Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Governor Zaldy Ampatuan Zaldy and Mamasapano Mayor Datu Akmad Ampatuan in connection with the Ampatuan Massacre THE ORDER of acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra for state prosecutors to drop [...]

Tweet Statement of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ), the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) and the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) on the 5th anniversary of the  killing of Marlene Esperat FIVE YEARS have passed since Marlene Esperat was killed in Tacurong City in the southern Philippine province of Sultan [...]