journalists

“A cautionary tale:” that’s how Maria Ressa describes her fate, after a Manila court convicted her and a former Rappler writer/researcher of cyber-libel. The total damages in the case were worth P400,000. Rappler has been absolved...

May 5 was a sad last day in the ABS-CBN News/TV Patrol newsroom, after the Philippines’ largest network was ordered to shut down operations amid the pandemic. ABS-CBN News Chief Ging Reyes led the charge for...

Rappler CEO and renowned journalist Maria Ressa is one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential persons in 2019. “Losing an independent Senate is game over” for the checks and balances in the Philippine governments, she told...

by CHRISTINE SANTOS, ABS-CBN News Toronto Prior to her Philippine Dept. of Justice, indictment, Rappler CEO and chief editor Maria Ressa made a recent visit to Canada, and gave a talk on the state of democracy in the...

Over a month ago, Eric Tandoc and Hiyasmin Saturay were among 19 people arrested at a violent dispersal of a protest at the NutriAsia plant in Bulacan, where workers and the condiment giant have been in...

by Mary Estacion, ABS-CBN News HOUSTON, TX — Bobby Caina Calvan is a journalist for the past 25 years — a career he’s always wanted to follow. “I’ve always respected our democracy and journalism is such...

NEW YORK CITY — For their relentless reporting that exposed the brutal alleged killing campaign behind Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, news organization Reuters —  including Filipino correspondent Manuel “Manny” Mogato — received this year’s...

NEW YORK CITY — CBS 2 reporter Hazel Sanchez is among this year’s Distinguished Filipino Women  Honorees at the Philippine Consulate in NYC. “My parents knew that it wasn’t a career maker but a career breaker,” Sanchez shared....

“Bring Home A Friend” is the Philippine Department of Tourism’s latest incentive program to encourage Filipinos to help promote tourism by inviting non-Filipino friends to visit the Philippines. And one of the DOT’s strategies to promote...

LOS ANGELES – It’s an annual tradition in LA’s Historic Filipinotown neighborhood — the Annual Kalayaan Day Parade. This year, as the community celebrates a new Philippine president, they’re also calling on that president to apologize. Steve...