The Altermidya Network expresses alarm over the recent spate of attacks against community journalists in the Bicol region. These incidents undermine the crucial role of journalists in providing information and threaten their fundamental right to free expression. Vince Casilihan, anchor of...
The Dengvaxia fiasco is just a symptom of a deeper malady of the US-modeled health care system which is driven by market forces rather than by people’s actual health needs. This illustrates starkly the danger of putting health in the hands of profit makers rather than...
Tanging sa araw ng paglipat (translacion) ng Itim na Nazareno lamang nagkakatipon ang milyong milyong Pilipino (na tinatayang aabot ngayong taon ng mahigit 18 Milyon). Sa gitna ng gitgitan, init, gutom at kung ano anong maaaring maramdaman ay milyon milyong deboto ang...
ALTERMIDYA Network denounces the recent attacks against our colleagues Kathyrine Cortez of the Mindanao-based Radyo Ni Juan and columnist Sherwin De Vera of Northern Dispatch Weekly. Cortez received threatening anonymous messages on Dec. 18, while De Vera was...
THE ONE-YEAR extension of martial law in Mindanao was a foregone conclusion. Even the political opposition predicted approval of it because of the overwhelming dominance in both the House of Representatives and the Senate of the allies and party mates of President...
THE phrase "alternative press" gained currency in the last years of the Marcos terror regime, when Jose Burgos' Malaya, We Forum, and other newspapers, magazines and news agencies were published to provide Filipinos and the rest of the world the information about...
THE dominant press and media are often constrained by the political and economic interests of their owners and even some practitioners. On the alternative tradition therefore falls much of the responsibility to defend press freedom and to provide the citizenry the...
The hands of Roberto Sumania were evidently rough, covered with veins and scars that he had acquired as a mining foreman. Unfortunately, this set of hardworking hands received nothing in return for the 10 years he has served his company, Greenstone Resources...
WHILE any change in the ownership of media organizations should be a continuing public concern, it has become specially relevant at the present time, when the media need to sharpen their capacity to accurately chronicle and make sense of events and issues during the...
AlterMidya Statement on the "Fake News'" Bill (Senate Bill 1492) WHILE the proliferation of fake news is admittedly damaging to citizen discussion and debate on public issues, if passed into law Senate Bill (SB) 1492 would be even more detrimental to free expression...
TUDLA PRODUCTIONS strongly condemns the harassment experienced by our video journalist, Ariel Bernardo Jebulan, by members of the Philippine Army on June 17, between 4 and 5 p.m. at the Suarez (National Steel Corporation) checkpoint in Iligan City. Jebulan,...
WE AT THE Altermidya denounce the Philippine military's threat to censor the press, including social media, during the implementation of martial law in Mindanao. AFP spokesperson Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla on Friday told the media that the military will exercise its...
HOW does the appointment of blogger and die-hard Duterte partisan Margaux "Mocha" Uson as an assistant secretary in the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) mesh with President Rodrigo Duterte's declaration last March 10, during the launch of...