{"id":51446,"date":"2015-06-08T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T10:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=51446"},"modified":"2015-06-08T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T10:18:07","slug":"filipino-journalist-to-be-enshrined-in-us-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/08\/filipino-journalist-to-be-enshrined-in-us-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino journalist to be enshrined in US memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21182\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21182\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/media-killing-maguindanao-massacre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21182\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/media-killing-maguindanao-massacre-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Carlos H. Conde \/ Twitter\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/media-killing-maguindanao-massacre-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/media-killing-maguindanao-massacre-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/media-killing-maguindanao-massacre.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21182\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Carlos H. Conde \/ Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Ruby Garcia, a journalist who was shot dead in Cavite, will be the 139th Filipino journalist to be enshrined in a memorial for murdered media workers in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia was among the 14 journalists chosen by a US-based group to represent more than 80 journalists who died in different parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>She was killed in front of her 10-year-old granddaughter in Cavite, April 6 last year.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia was one of the 26 reporters killed under the Aquino administration and is one of \u00a0the 166 media workers who died after the Marcos regime.<\/p>\n<p>Garcia&#8217;s name will be engraved on the Journalists Wall as part of the Newseum Institute&#8217;s annual re-dedication for media workers who offered their lives in pursuit of the journalism profession.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Journalists Memorial reminds us of the risks taken by journalists around the world to gather the news,\u201d Policinski said in a statement posted on the Newseum\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJournalists face injury and threats, and some [make] the ultimate sacrifice to hold governments and others accountable. The memorial serves each day to remind the world of their work and their sacrifice,\u201d he\u00a0added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Ruby Garcia, a journalist who was shot dead in Cavite, will be the 139th Filipino journalist to be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":21182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}