The country’s journalists, other media advocates and the public are alarmed over the increasing number of  journalists killed in the line of duty and the muzzling of press freedom.

According to the Philippine Journalism Review (PJR) Reports published by the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), a Misamis Oriental journalist was the sixth killed in 2008 and the fifth killed in the line of duty. Fifty-five year old Arecio Padrigao criticized government corruption and illegal logging affecting his province in his radio program. He was also a columnist in the community newspaper Mindanao Monitor Today. more