
02/09/2025
ALERT | The official student publication of the University of Santo Tomas-Senior High School (UST-SHS), La Stampa, was barred from posting publication material commemorating National Press Freedom Day after advisers rejected a press freedom-themed cartoon on August 30, the very day dedicated to honoring press freedom.
In response, the College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) released a statement condemning the incident, calling it a “blatant act of censorship” that strips student journalists of their editorial independence. CEGP demanded an immediate end to administrative and adviser interference in campus publications.
The case of La Stampa follows a similar controversy last year, when TomasinoWeb, UST’s digital media organization, faced censorship after the UST Office of Student Affairs (OSA) took down a photo release which supposedly earned “public ridicule” from students of the College of Information and Computing Sciences (CICS).