PRESS FREEDOM. Presidential aspirant Sen. Manny Pacquiao and wife, Jinkee (center), join the Cagayan de Oro Press Club in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Press Freedom Monument, Misamis Oriental Capitol grounds on Saturday (April 30, 2022). The monument is in honor of fallen journalists and media workers. (PNA photo by Nef Luczon) CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - Sen. Manny Pacquiao paid tribute to journalists and other media workers who died in the line of duty before proceeding to his presidential campaign rally here over the weekend. Pacquiao, together with his wife, Jinkee, and other senatorial candidates in his slate offered wreaths at the Press Freedom Monument at the Misamis Oriental capitol grounds on Saturday. He was joined by members and officers of the Cagayan de Oro Press Club, Inc. (COPC). "Part of our freedom and democracy is having a freedom to express and to have a free press," Pacquiao said. His visit was also in support of the observance of the World Press Freedom Day
SIMULATION EXERCISE.Students, members of the press, and civil society representatives were given time to re-familiarize the voting process in the upcoming May 9 elections using the Vote Counting Machines. The simulation exercise was provided by the Commission on Elections Misamis Oriental office, held in Cagayan de Oro City, on April 23, 2022.(PNA photo by Nef Luczon) CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY-The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has remained firm on the integrity of the Vote Counting Machines (VCMs) in the upcoming May 9 polls. Lawyer Aleli Abamonga-Dayo, Comelec Supervisor in Misamis Oriental, in a workshop demonstration on Saturday, said that while there were reports of alleged technical discrepancies in the previous elections, there were no actual cases prospered that proved there was election fraud. "For the fifth time we have been using VCMs, and still there was no proof (of election fraud), all remained (just) allegations," she said. Dayo provided detailed information on th
Dennis Denora, a Sun.Star reporter and publisher of the Trends and Times community paper, has been shot dead by unidentified killers, according to the Davao chapter of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.
Denora was killed near the wet market of Panabo City in Davao Del Norte on Thursday afternoon, NUJP Davao says.
The Davao del Norte Press & Radio-TV Club says in a statement that is is angered and saddened by news of the killing.
"His death awakens the anger and pains of journalists who do their job and yet are being judged by the pistol," the group also says.
Cagayan de Oro s most red-tagged journalist linked to Reds again
Apr 23, 2021 1:19 PM PHT
Herbie Gomez
Journalist Leonardo Cong Corrales is earning the reputation as the most red-tagged journalist in Cagayan de Oro.
The 47-year-old Corrales, associate editor of the Cagayan de Oro-based
Mindanao Gold Star Daily, has been subjected to numerous red-taggings on social media, and in anti-communist propaganda materials circulated in the city since 2019.
This week, he found old photos of himself again in leaflets and posters that linked organizers of the city s first community pantry in Barangay Kauswagan to the decades-old communist insurgency.
One photo showed him brandishing a firearm. That photo, he laughingly said, was taken while he was playing with an Airsoft replica toy gun used as props during a safety training for journalists sometime in 2010.