Jose Jaime Espina

Jose Jaime Espina (8 March 1962 – 7 July 2021), also known as Nonoy, was a Filipino journalist who was a co-founder of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), of which he was later the chair from 2018 until 2021. An advocate for freedom of the press, Espina primarily reported on community issues impacting Filipinos, including the communist armed conflict, human rights issues, internal displacement, and the conflict in Mindanao.

Journalism When Espina was a student, he served as an editor of Pagbutlak, the student newspaper of the University of the Philippines Visayas. During the regime of Ferdinand Marcos, Espina was a member of the Correspondents, Broadcasters and Reporters Association - Action News Services (COBRA-ANS), which was part of the "mosquito press" that fought against government misinformation. Espina was critical of the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte for its human rights violations, which led to the NUJP, of which Espina was a founding member, being red-tagged as a legal front for communism by the No to Communist Terrorist Group Coalition. He was married to Leny Rojo, an architecture graduate and an active advocate for social justice, with whom he had two children, Mayumi and Dakila.