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16 years on, the Maguindanao massacre continues to provide lessons to campus journalists
Students of Bicol University in Legazpi City recall the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in a candle-lighting ceremony. —PHOTOS BY GRACE NIVERO
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December 3, 2025February 19, 2026Media

16 years on, the Maguindanao massacre continues to provide lessons to campus journalists

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PILI, CAMARINES SUR—Journalism student Jevan Dex Miranda was a child when the inconceivable happened: bodies unearthed by a backhoe, families grieving while searching for their loved ones, and headlines marking the Philippines as the setting of the deadliest single attack on journalists in world history. Miranda was among the students, human rights advocates and media...

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Book cover of “Labor and Mass Media in the Philippines” which describes economic and political conditions of media workers during the Marcos regime.
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September 21, 2023February 19, 2026History, Opinion

Norma Rae, Sister Stella L, and newspaper union organizing under martial law

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They said it couldn’t be done. It was martial law, after all, and among many freedoms suppressed by Ferdinand Marcos Sr.’s repressive regime (1965-1986) was the right to organize a legitimate union. Strikes were banned, and only government-friendly unions were recognized. But a hardy group of journalists at the Journal group of publications (Times Journal,...