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...
One year into the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the state of free expression has not improved. In fact, it has further deteriorated in the Philippines. President Marcos Jr. pledged to uphold press freedom. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines,...
The repercussions of the Duterte administration’s attacks against press freedom and the people’s right to know continue to be felt until today.
Altermidya welcomes the news that three accessories to the murder of broadcaster Percival “Percy Lapid” Mabasa last year had been convicted yesterday, June 23.
The alternative media community remains steadfast in its call to junk the blocking order as it brazenly restricts press freedom and constitutes an overreach that impedes the people’s right to know.
Altermidya Network denounces the unconstitutional, undemocratic, and dangerous resolution released by the Kalinga Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC).
This 30th World Press Freedom Day, the struggle for a genuinely free press in the Philippines persists as community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio remains unjustly detained in Tacloban City.
Dean Luis was and is a pillar of Philippine journalism, credited with advancing the ideals of pro-people journalism both as a respected member of the academe and through the alternative media that he helped to organize in the Philippines.
Joint Statement For the past three years, community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio has been detained over trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives and terrorist financing. Frenchie Mae is part of the ‘Tacloban 5’ human rights defenders who...
After our triumph against the rebellion and libel charges filed against our editorial board members, state authorities are now after our Ilocos correspondent Niño Joseph Oconer.
We at Altermidya Network call on the courts both in Manila and Tacloban to see the light of truth and give justice to the case of Frenchie, Mariel, and the rest of the ‘Tacloban 5.’
Altermidya Network welcomes the Court of Tax Appeals’ (CTA) decision to acquit Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa and Rappler of the tax evasion charges filed by the Duterte administration. The charges junked by the CTA are part of what can be described as a textbook example...
As the Quezon City Regional Trial Court begins the pre-trial proceedings for the case filed by our fellow alternative media outfit Bulatlat, we in the Altermidya Network reiterate our position: the National Telecommunications (NTC) order constitutes prior restraint...