A Filipino journalist was shot dead Wednesday (December 8) in the Philippines, the latest in a long list of media professionals murdered in that country, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) said.
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Jesus Malabanan was killed in Calbayog City in central Samar province, according to a statement from the organization posted on his Facebook page.
He was a correspondent for
Manil
a
Standard
in the central Luzon area, north of Manila, the newspaper told AFP, confirming the journalist's death.
He also worked as a stringer for the international news agency Reuters.
The agency said it was "
deeply saddened
" by the death of Jesus Malabanan, who worked on his coverage of the 2017 war on drugs in the Philippines that won him the Pulitzer Prize.
The branch of the NUJP in the province of Pampanga, located on the island of Luçon, condemned this “
absurd assassination
”.
Calbayog police declined to provide details.
The Philippines is one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, and most of their killers go unpunished.
At the end of October, Orlando Dinoy, reporter for the online site
Newsline
Philippines and presenter on Energy FM, was killed six times by a gunman who broke into his apartment in Bansalan, on the island of Mindanao.
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He was the 21st journalist killed since President Rodrigo Duterte came to power in 2016, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines said at the time.
In a report released in October before these last two murders, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists ranked the Philippines seventh on its Global Impunity Index, created in 2008, with 13 murders of journalists. not elucidated.
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