“Press Freedom Under Siege: Reportage that Challenged the Marcos Dictatorship” (University of the Philippines Press) will be launched today, March 23, 4:30 p.m., at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani, Quezon City.
Edited by Inquirer columnist Ma. Ceres P. Doyo, the book is a compilation of more than 30 magazine and newspaper articles written by bold and daring journalists in the waning years of the Marcos dictatorship, and for which the writers bore various consequences.
The book is dedicated to Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc, the late Inquirer editor in chief, and the Filipino journalists who were slain in the line of duty. It is a reedited, resurrected version of two small volumes, “The Philippine Press Under Siege vol. 1 and 2,” published in 1984 and 1985, and edited by Leonor Aureus Briscoe.
Available at the UP Press Bookstore (UP Diliman campus), and UPper Shelf Bookstore at UP Town Center, Katipunan Avenue, QC; E-mail press@up.edu.ph