The online news publication Inquirer.net withdrew an article detailing an alleged donation by the House of Representatives speaker to Boston’s Harvard University in exchange for a Filipino language course. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) in expressing its deep concern over the withdrawal and calling on Filipino media outlets to uphold their commitments to press freedom and discourage self-censorship.
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(1st UPDATE) Inquirer Interactive says the article detailing Speaker Martin Romualdez's supposed $1-million donation to fund Harvard's Filipino language course was removed for not meeting the website's editorial standards
'There was no explanation or justification for the removal,' former Inquirer.net US editor Rene Ciria-Cruz says of the deleted story on Speaker Martin Romualdez's generous donation to fund Harvard University's Filipino language course
'Why the need to keep the donation a secret? Is it because Speaker Martin Romualdez is a philanthropist who quietly helps? Or because the Marcoses and the Romualdezes don't want the public to know where the funds come from?' asks the Alliance of Concerned Teachers