Radio anchor Juan Jumalon was fatally shot by an unidentified assailant inside his home-based broadcast studio in the southern Misamis Occidental province while live on air on November 5. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), strongly condemn this brazen killing and call for an immediate investigation to bring the perpetrators to justice.
'We call on the government to acknowledge the existence of impunity that has made the killing of media workers almost a regular occurrence,' says anti-disinformation coalition #FactsFirstPH
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