{"id":410979,"date":"2024-07-25T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=410979"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"CNMI-SPJ-supports-freedom-of-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/CNMI-SPJ-supports-freedom-of-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"CNMI SPJ supports freedom of the press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists supports the recent statement by the Marianas Variety defending its reporter Bryan Manabat\u2019s reporting amid allegations of defamation.<\/p>\n<p>As the Marianas Variety reviews the allegations in detail, CNMI SPJ echoes the newspaper president and publisher Amier C. Younis\u2019 statement to uphold the principles of a free and independent press.<\/p>\n<p>In any circumstance, journalists who report truthfully and abide by the SPJ code of ethics ought to be able to do their job without intimidation or fear of retribution.<\/p>\n<p>We respect the legal process as it is also part of the Society of Professional Journalists\u2019 national mission to defend journalists and protect the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNMI Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/9d1d55590cb89eb1be894c9d0070e339.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>Letter to the Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CNMI Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists supports the recent statement by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}