They were two of my peers at the University, only a few years removed from our days haunting the halls of Vinzons, went missing while organizing landless farmers in Hagonoy, Bulacan, exactly twenty years ago today. Many clues, a few witnesses, and countless visits to cemeteries, military camps,...
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.
The Altermidya Network expresses solidarity with colleagues in the mainstream media who are facing cyberlibel complaints filed by Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi and known Duterte ally and businessman Dennis Uy. These complaints, all filed simultaneously involving seven...
As Filipino journalists, we are concerned about the fragile state of press freedom in our country, especially as the 2022 elections draw near.
After waiting for months, the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-PH) under the Department of Information and Communications Technology gave us a copy of its initial findings confirming that the source of the cyberattacks on our websites originated from an IP...
LAST week’s chaos at Afghanistan’s Kabul Airport was somewhat reminiscent of the scene in the former South Vietnamese capital of Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) when US troops pulled out in 1975 as the guerrillas of the National Liberation Front (NLF), which the US had derisively labelled the “Vietcong,” took control of the city.
Para sa akin, si Luis ang pinaka-beterano, sa yaman ng naisulat, sa journalism sa kasalukuyan na ang kanyang panulat at opinyon ay nananatiling pinakamatalas at makabuluhan dahil may yaman ng insights na nakaangkla sa kanyang yaman ng karanasan at kaalaman.
ALTERMIDYA stands with former Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) executive editor Jose Ma. D. Nolasco, former news editor Artemio Jun Engracia, and former PDI reporter Nancy Carvajal in their denunciation of the current PDI management’s decision to strike a compromise...
Pinakamataas na saludo ang iginagawad ng Altermidya Network kay Jose Jaime 'Nonoy Espina', itinuturing na isa sa mga haligi ng malayang pamamahayag ng aming panahon. Buong-buo ang suporta at masigasig ang pamumuno ni Sir Nonoy sa paglaban ng mga mamamahayag sa bansa,...