The lawyers of Frenchie Mae and Marielle Domequil will appeal the conviction today at the Court of Appeals. The two were convicted wrongfully fo terrorism financing early this year. We maintain that the ruling of the Tacloban Regional Trial Court, issued by Judge Georgina Uy-Perez,...
Altermidya Network applauds the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression for visiting detained community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, as well as church worker Marielle Domequil and human rights defender Alexander Abinguna in Tacloban City Jail on...
United Nations Special Rapporteur (UNSR) on freedom of expression and opinion Irene Khan's first day in the Philippines yesterday, January 23, Tuesday, ended with separate meetings with various media groups and another with the Presidential Task Force on Media...
MANILA – Bearing handbells, media groups led by Altermidya Network trooped to the Department of Justice in Manila on Tuesday, January 23, to call for the immediate release of detained community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio. The protest was in time for Frenchie Mae’s...
Community media group AlterMidya Network challenges the Philippine government to disclose the country’s real record on free expression as it prepares for the upcoming visit of UN envoy Irene Khan. The group is reacting to the statement of the Department of Foreign...
Altermidya takes strong exception to Undersecretary Paul Gutierrez’s accusation and red-tagging of our member, Ms. Frenchie Mae Cumpio. In his January 4 “Paul’s Alarm” column on JournalnewsOnline, the Presidential Task Force On Media Security (PTFOMS) executive...
The Altermidya Network strongly condemns the 93rd Civil Military Operations (CMO) Company of the Armed Forces of the Philippines for its attempt to summon our member Baretang Bikolnon’s Reynard Magtoto through a local government unit.
I am not sure where I stand with this year’s Day of the Dead celebration. I certainly commemorate this time among the living, but am just as aware that things could have panned out very differently.
The worsening conflict in Palestine’s Gaza amid Israel’s unrelenting offensives indicates a humanitarian crisis of global concern.
Maggie Wilson has brought national attention to the country’s information disorder once again, a problem so prevalent since the 2016 presidential election that it has become normalized to Filipinos.
Altermidya stands in full solidarity with journalist Atom Araullo on his firm stand against enemies of press freedom and other human rights violations. Today, our colleague filed a P2-million civil suit against notorious red-taggers Lorraine Badoy-Partosa and Jeffrey...
My grandmother just died but I am unable to go home to mourn properly.
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,...