"That the incident took place in Metro Manila indicates how brazen the perpetrators were, and how authorities have failed to protect journalists as well as ordinary citizens from harm," said the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.
A Philippine journalist has been shot dead while driving in the country's capital, police said on Tuesday, prompting condemnation from media groups and activists, who described his assassination as a blow to press freedom.
Radio journalist Percival Mabasa, 63, was killed by two assailants at the gate of a residential compound in the Las Pinas area of Manila on Monday night, police said.
The national police vowed to bring justice over the attack.
The Philippines has one of Asia's most liberal media environments, but it remains of the world's most dangerous places for journalists, particularly in its provinces.
Mabasa's family called his killing a "deplorable crime" and demanded "his cowardly assassins be brought to justice."
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