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 mass arrest of over 90 farmers, advocates, and members of the media in Hacienda Tinang, Concepcion, Tarlac last week has caught the Philippine National Police (PNP) in a tight bind, with authorities now scrambling to defend their unjustifiable acts. This is...
ONE OF THE few concrete policy promises Ferdinand Marcos Junior made during his campaign for the Presidency of these isles of forgetfulness was to make rice available at Php20.00 per kilo. The average price of a kilo of the staple was more than twice Php20.00 at...
ONE OF THE few concrete policy promises Ferdinand Marcos Junior made during his campaign for the Presidency of these isles of forgetfulness was to make rice available at Php20.00 per kilo.
Altermidya Network welcomes the dismissal of the cyberlibel case against Northern Dispatch journalists Kimberlie Quitasol and Khim Russel Abalos. While we share the triumph of our colleagues over the apparent intimidation of state forces on community journalists, we...
We in the Altermidya-People's Alternative Media Network express solidarity with colleagues in Rappler and other individuals who are facing cyber libel complaints in connection with a series of investigative reports into Pastor Apollo Quiboloy of the Kingdom of Jesus...
#FactsFirstPH, an initiative comprising of more than 100 groups in the Philippines, pushes back against efforts to take down and disrupt news websites
Over the past few months, several news sites have been subjected to cyber attacks. According to a February 7 article in the Manila Bulletin, the websites of CNN Philippines, Rappler and Philstar.com have been attacked, purportedly by a group calling itself Pinoy...
When asked their views on media and press freedom as well as free expression, politicians of the Philippine variety will swear to high heaven their respect for both. But the most clueless among them about what both freedoms mean and what they consist of will do their...
Today, February 7, is community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s second year in jail. In the middle of her unjust and prolonged detention in Tacloban, another trumped-up case was filed against our colleague in another trial court.F
Altermidya Network condemns the shooting of journalist Manuel Garcellano of alternative media outfit Umani Productions.
THE NEW WAVE of cyberattacks against media outfits Vera Files, Rappler, and ABS-CBN seems to be a preview of heightened attacks against journalists as the 2022 national elections near. As part of the media community that continues to weather distributed denial of...
We in the Altermidya Network condemn the online harassment against our news reporter and secretariat member, which we believe is another case of intimidation on the independent media.