Tag: Rappler
#HoldTheLine campaign launched to back Maria Ressa, independent media
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Sixty press freedom groups and civil society organisations, journalism institutions, filmmakers, and other supporters have formed a coalition in support of...
‘Fight not over’, says Robredo pushing for safeguards in anti-terror law
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Days after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Philippines Anti-Terrorism Law, Vice-President Leni Robredo has pushed for safeguards so that the controversial...
Rappler chief Ressa appeals over cyber libel conviction, cites errors, ‘malice’
By Lian Buan in Manila
Rappler chief executive Maria Ressa and former researcher-writer Reynaldo Santos Jr have filed a motion for partial reconsideration, appealing...
A Thousand Cuts wins best global feature at NZ’s Doc Edge...
By Rappler
A Thousand Cuts, Ramona Diaz’s documentary on democracy and press freedom in the Philippines, has won the top prize at the 2020 Doc...
RSF brands Maria Ressa’s conviction as ‘masquerade’ amid global criticism
Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the up to six years in jail sentence that Philippine journalist Maria Ressa faces on a...
Maria Ressa found guilty in blow to Philippines’ press freedom
By Ted Regencia in Manila
A court in the Philippines has found Rappler chief executive and executive editor Maria Ressa, and a former Rappler reporter,...
Maria Ressa, Rey Santos Jr convicted of cyber libel in Philippines
By Lian Buan in Manila
Rappler chief executive and executive editor Maria Ressa and former Rappler researcher-writer Reynaldo Santos have been convicted today...
Frontline snaps up Ramona Diaz’s powerful doco A Thousand Cuts
Award-winning Filipino-American filmmaker Ramona Diaz takes viewers to the Philippines where the free press has been under siege since President Rodrigo #Duterte took office...
30 media freedom groups, academics, journalists protest over TV shutdown
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More than 30 media freedom groups, journalists and academics have combined in an international statement today condemning the closure of the largest...
Rappler publisher Maria Ressa raps Duterte for ‘security’ violations
Pacific Media Watch
Rappler publisher and chief editor Maria Ressa was critical today of the Philippines administration under President Rodrigo Duterte for its focus on...
Shut down Philippines TV network journalist tells of ‘the unthinkable’
Rappler justice reporter Lian Buan talks to ABS-CBN's Mike Navallo who broke the report about the shutdown. Video: Rappler
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For the first time...
Rappler co-founder questions ‘guns blazing’ legal attack on top network
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The Philippines top state lawyer has filed a lawsuit against the country’s key television broadcaster with “guns blazing” but he ought to...
Rights groups, journalists condemn Duterte bid to shut key TV network
By Felipe F. Salvosa II in Manila
New York-based Human Rights Watch has led a barrage of condemnation against the Duterte government’s "assault on media...
Rappler challenges president’s ‘media powers’ in democracy fight back
By David Robie in Manila
Rappler, the innovative online publisher that has been at the media freedom frontline in the Philippines for the past three...
Maria Ressa on Time’s ‘100 most influential people in world’ list
By Christia Marie Ramos in Manila
Philippine journalist, editor and publisher Maria Ressa has been named among Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the...
Rappler editor Maria Ressa arrested in Manila over anti-dummy law
Maria Ressa goes with arresting Pasig police officers to post bail. Video: Rappler
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Rappler CEO and executive editor Maria Ressa was arrested...
Timorese journalists protest outside Philippine embassy over Ressa arrest
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The Timor-Leste Press Union has protested in front of the Philippine Embassy in the capital Dili in solidarity with indicted Journalist...
Philippine website editor Maria Ressa held on ‘cyber libel’ charge
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The Paris-based global media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned yesterday's arrest of Maria Ressa, editor of the independent...
Bangsamoro Islamic troops choose peace via historic Philippines vote
By Sofia Tomacruz in Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao
Battle-scarred they might be, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front have faced their toughest campaign yet.
Armed with nothing but...
Stop harassing Rappler, media advocacy groups tell Duterte
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have written a joint open letter to the prosecutor-general of...
RSF condemns ‘tax evasion’ charge used to harass Philippine website
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Reporters Without Borders has condemned the tax evasion charges that the Philippine Department of Justice is bringing against the independent news...
‘Sick joke’, threats cited in Asia-Pacific declining media freedom summit
Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Christophe Deloire talks about the global threat against journalists. Video: Café Pacific
By David Robie in Paris
When Reporters Without Borders chief...