U.S. Embassy Celebrates Press Freedom

More than 500 students attended U.S. Embassy Manila’s “Broadcast Journalism Discussions with Jiggy Manicad,” a lecture and film screening promoting press freedom in honor of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl. The lecture was held at the University of the Philippines Los Baños New College of Arts and Sciences.

Daniel Pearl was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal who was abducted and killed by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. Since then, Daniel Pearl has become a symbol of the journalist at risk, and is commemorated annually through events that encourage tolerance and press freedom.