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White House controls media choice to cover Trump

WASHINGTON, DC – The White House on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) stripped journalists of the nearly century-old power to decide which of them cover...

AP sues White House officials over denial of access

Washington, United States—The Associated Press filed a lawsuit against three White House officials on Friday after the news agency was barred from some of US...

Media workers call for safe environment covering polls

With the May 2025 midterm elections approaching, a coalition of media organizations urged authorities to safeguard journalists covering the upcoming polls. The Movement for Media...

Regulating online hate speech ‘not censorship’—UN rights chief

Geneva, Switzerland—The United Nations (UN) rights chief insisted Friday that regulating hate speech and harmful content online "is not censorship," days after Meta scrapped its...

Campaigners fear spike in hate speech as Meta lifts restrictions 

Washington, United States—Tech giant Meta has rolled back restrictions around topics such as gender and sexual identity, a sweeping move advocacy groups fear will fuel...

ABS-CBN thanks lawmakers for reviving franchise bid

Broadcast media giant ABS-CBN Corporation thanked members of the House of Representatives for taking the initiative to renew its bid for a fresh legislative...

Meta announces ending fact-checking program in the US

Washington, United States—Social media giant Meta announced Tuesday a significant rollback of its content moderation policies, including the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in...

House leader files bill to renew ABS-CBN franchise to operate

A Congress leader revived the proposed bill to grant ABS-CBN Corporation a franchise to operate. Albay Rep. Joey Salceda filed House Bill No. 11252 renewing...

Israeli strike on media broadcast truck kills five—statement

Palestinian Territories—Five members of the Palestinian TV channel "Al-Quds Today," which is affiliated with the Islamic Jihad movement, were killed Thursday in an Israeli...

Tulfo wants media excluded as witnesses in drug cases

The National Press Club (NPC) supports the call of  ACT-CIS  party-list Rep. Erwin Tulfo for the Senate to file a bill seeking the exclusion...

Early signs suggest Trump 2.0 will be bringing the chaos back

Donald Trump still has a month until he becomes US president but he has already displayed his unique capacity to sow confusion and steal...

Trump taps election denier to head global media operation VOA

Washington, United States—US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday appointed election denier Kari Lake to be the new director of Voice of America, the state-funded international...

CHR backs UN call to review killings, cases against media

The Commission on Human Rights on Wednesday backed the urgent appeal of the United Nations to look into the cases of journalists with legal...

Cambodian journalist investigating illegal logging shot dead

Phnom Penh, Cambodia — A Cambodian journalist died on Saturday after he was shot this week while investigating illegal logging in the country's northwest,...
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