The Altermidya Network condemns the attacks on community journalists covering the farmers’ protest at the Department of Agrarian Reform earlier today, October 19. Quezon City police attempted to nab Bulatlat reporter Aaron Ernest Cruz while the protest was ongoing, even as Cruz identified...
The news from Toboso is not just another headline. Nineteen lives were lost in a single armed encounter, human beings, not statistics. On one side were those identified as members of the New People’s Army. On the other, soldiers of the state. Both Filipino. Both sons...
On 23 March 2026, the judge is scheduled to decide on the defence’s motion for reconsideration of Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s conviction for the bogus “financing of terrorism,” along with a motion to reconsider her bail. A coalition of international and local press freedom...
San Carlos Bishop Gerardo Alminaza warned that escalating conflict in West Asia could worsen economic hardship for Filipinos, as rising oil prices worsened by oil speculation ripple through global energy markets. In a pastoral statement, Alminaza said the tension...
We in the Altermidya Network welcome the statement issued by five UN Special Rapporteurs and independent experts of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) urging the provisional release of Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio...
I have never been to the United States, but in many ways I feel as if I have. In some respects, I feel I know more about it than I do about many other societies. I cannot speak for all Filipinos, but this does not feel like an uncommon condition among us. We have...
On February 7, Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a community journalist from Leyte, marks her sixth year in detention—an incarceration that rights and media groups strongly believe stems from her work as a journalist. As a radio broadcaster, Frenchie reported on the lives of...
Sa pagitan ng tulog at higaanAy hindi ang kayakap na kumotSa gabing sa lamig ibinalotO ang unan na saksiSa mga binitawang luha at pighati Dahil ang pagitanAy higit pa sa kanyang sukatin—Ang mga bakit, sana at alin—Mag-uumpisa sa alaala nilaAt kapag malapit na...
Ituturo tayo ng mga isip-bataAt ang daliri’y kakagatinDahil oo nga pala, sabi ni lolaBawal ituro ang mga walang sala. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Si Frenchie Mae Cumpio ay 26-taong gulang na community journalist na...
SalamatHanggang ngayon mahigpit ang pagtangansa kabila ng ligalig at kagipitanSa gitna ng unos na bumubuhos sa bayan. Dama ko ang pagod moNa isigaw ang katotohanang pilit na binuburaNg mga ganid na nagpapakalat ng kathaAt ikaw na nagsusumikap ang ginawa pang...
The decision is a grave injustice and is a serious peril to the already dire state of press freedom and free expression in the Philippines.
Tomorrow, January 22, our colleague Frenchie Mae Cumpio will face the promulgation of the two trumped-up charges against her at the Tacloban regional trial court. The Altermidya Network, together with all advocates of press freedom and free expression, demands the...
January 14, 2025 – A coalition of international and local press freedom organisations is urging President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to immediately and unconditionally release prominent journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, whose promulgation of judgment in the illegal firearms...