Overturn ban on Rappler coverage, journalists ask SC

Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:31:16 +0000

Overturn ban on Rappler coverage, journalists ask SC

MANILA, Philippines — Journalists from other media outfits have joined online news site Rappler in asking the Supreme Court to overturn Malacañang’s order banning Rappler reporters from covering events and stories in the executive branch of government. Forty-one print, broadcast and online journalists, including Inquirer columnists Solita Collas-Monsod, Ceres Doyo and John Nery; former Inquirer […]

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Ex-Times editor: I’m just for basic journalistic principles

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 21:32:34 +0000

Ex-Times editor: I’m just for basic journalistic principles

Resigned Manila Times managing editor Felipe Salvosa II said he would never put down his former newspaper

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Robredo on new destabilization matrix: Is this one reliable?

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:16:36 +0000

Robredo on new destabilization matrix: Is this one reliable?

Vice President Leni Robredo doubts the veracity of a matrix linking journalists and human rights lawyers to a destabilization plot, noting that previous one released by Malacañang proved to be unreliable.

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Palace confirms existence of ‘Oust-Duterte plot’

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 04:36:01 +0000

Palace confirms existence of 'Oust-Duterte plot'

MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang confirmed Monday that the “Oust-Duterte Plot “matrix, which was published in a Manila broadsheet, was the same information the Palace was supposed to release today.

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Ressa to appeal court’s dismissal of her motion to quash charges

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 21:38:49 +0000

MANILA, Philippines — The lawyer of Rappler executive editor and CEO Maria Ressa on Tuesday said they would appeal anew to have the cyberlibel charges filed against her quashed, after a Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) upheld state prosecutors’ argument that the prescriptive period for cyberlibel was 12 years.

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Palace to CPJ: Rappler, Ressa cases not press freedom issues

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:38:59 +0000

Neither online media outfit Rappler nor its chief executive officer, Maria Ressa, reflects the condition of media in the Philippines, Malacañang said Tuesday as it slammed the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) for expressing alarm on the state of press freedom in the country.

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Manila court refuses to dismiss cyberlibel raps vs Rappler

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 04:18:47 +0000

The Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 46 has denied the bid of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa to dismiss the cyberlibel case filed by businessman Wilfredo Keng, saying it is still within the 12 year prescriptive period.

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Palace to US senators calling for De Lima’s release: Mind your own business

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 03:13:18 +0000

The five United States senators who called for the release of opposition Sen. Leila de Lima and sought for the dropping of charges against Rappler and its chief Maria Ressa should mind their own business, Malacañang said Monday.

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Filipinos should be proud of Maria Ressa – former CJ Sereno

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2019 13:59:13 +0000

Filipinos should be proud of Maria Ressa – former CJ Sereno

Following Rappler chief executive Maria Ressa’s second arrest, former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Monday lauded the journalist’s braveness.

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