World Press Freedom Day on May 3, marked the 30th year since the United Nations (UN) General Assembly declared it as such. The first World Press Freedom Day was launched in London in 1993. Filipino journalists also mark that date but years before, we had chosen a special date for solemn and out-of-the-box gatherings to mark National Press Freedom Day. That was Aug. 30, the birth anniversary of Marcelo H. del Pilar, also known as Plaridel, his pen name. A journalist, writer, and lawyer, Del Pilar, along with Jose Rizal and Graciano Lopez Jaena were leaders of the reform movement in Spain.

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