The international coalition of press freedom NGOs welcomes thedecision of the Laoang Regional Trial Court Branch 21 to grant the motion to quash thebaseless murder charge filed against community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio. Thisruling marks a significant step forward after years of...
Altermidya Network welcomes the Court of Appeals’ decision to void the civil forfeiture case filed by the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) against community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio and lay worker Marielle Domequil. The case is in relation to the PHP557,360...
Altermidya Network condemns the apparent attempt by the Philippine National Police–Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP–CIDG) to intimidate campus journalist Jacob Vergara Baluyot, associate editor of The Catalyst, after he covered the September 21 Aksyon...
Ahead of the Philippines’ National Press Freedom Day, a coalition of international and local press freedom organizations is urging President Ferdinand"Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to immediately and unconditionally release community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio. Detained...
Altermidya – People’s Alternative Media Network condemns in the strongest terms the killing of Anas al-Sharif, a respected Gaza correspondent of Al Jazeera, along with four other remaining Al Jazeera journalists still covering inside the besieged territory. Anas was...
Altermidya Network strongly condemns the complete disabling of our member publication Bulatlat.com’s Instagram account by Meta on August 8, 2025. This unilateral move, which Meta did without explanation, recourse, or transparency, is outright censorship. It denies the...
The Altermidya Network condemns the reported abuses committed under the watch of Tacloban City Jail warden Jail Inspector Eva E. Naputo, and Chief Unit Intelligence Officer SI01 Dalmacio C. Canayong Jr. against Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDLs), including the...
Geneva, June 27, 2025 - A handwritten letter by journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, who has been detained in the Philippines for more than five years without a conviction, was read out at the United Nations by U.N. special envoy Irene Khan, who called the 26-year-old’s...
The Altermidya Network reiterates its urgent call for the immediate release of Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a community journalist and member of our network, who has been unjustly detained for over four years on baseless and politically motivated charges. Her case,...
Tacloban, 16 June 2025 – A coalition of press freedom organisations, composed of AlterMidya, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Free Press Unlimited (FPU), the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), and Reporters Without Borders (RSF),...
The Altermidya Network strongly denounces the sanctions imposed by the European Union Council against the red. media and its founder Hüseyin Doğru, following their coverage of Palestinian solidarity protests in Germany. We believe this a conscious act by the Council...
The Altermidya Network expresses its dismay at the Commission on Elections (Comelec), particularly its local offices, for enforcing unauthorized restrictions on duly accredited journalists during the 2025 midterm elections.This is a clear affront to press freedom and...
As the 2025 midterm elections draw near, we, journalists, media workers, and advocates of free speech, free press, and free expression, reiterate the role of an independent media in a democracy and the need for a media electoral agenda. While the 1987 Constitution...