Training & Events

In order to promote a robust national conversation around important issues and concerns, the foundation also sponsors and co-organizes events and thematic trainings around various issues, ranging from disinformation, public health, and justice.

In 2022, JNBF collaborated with Rappler and the JournalismFund.eu in holding a hybrid (onground and online) week-long training that focused on how to cover Modern Day Slavery for 30 Southeast Asian Journalists. This training led to a number of stories covering human trafficking which Rappler published in succeeding months.

In November 2017, while the Philippines was coming to terms with rising disinformation and hate in social media, the Foundation together with Rappler, Free Press Unlimited, the US Embassy, and other partner groups, organized a series of events around the theme: “Truth, Trust and Democracy in the Digital Age.”

The purpose of this activity was to build awareness of the complexities and dynamics of disinformation various stakeholders will then come up with collaborative ways to address this. It is one of the first big events in the country that sounded the alarm on the dangers of disinformation on democracy and society.

Following this series of events, Rappler and JNBF produced a series of documentaries and videos to explain the nature of disinformation and humanize journalists who were being mercilessly attacked online due to their coverage of the drug war.

JNBF is also part of Hustisya Natin, a consortium of NGOs aimed at empowering civil society, including the media, to monitor the courts.

From 2016 to 2018, the Consortium, which includes the Ateneo Human Rights Center, PAHRA, the Transparency and Accountability Network, implemented a three-year project funded by the European Union.