27 June 2009
Jonathan Petalvero
Shooting
A masked gunman shot and killed Jonathan Petalvero in a restaurant in Bayagun, a small town on the southern island of Mindanao, according to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and international news reports.
The gunman fled the scene on a motorcycle, according to the reports. The commentator, who hosted a radio program on DXFM station, was declared dead on arrival at the local hospital, the reports said.
Petalvero's commentary aired as "block-time" broadcasting, a common practice in the Philippines in which commentators buy airtime from local stations and solicit their own advertising.
In this case, Petalvero's commentary aired on a station owned by a local politician, according to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.
