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...
ANY INITIATIVE TO assure access to government-held information is a step towards greater transparency. For so long, the lack of a strong mechanism to ensure transparency in government records and transactions has allowed corruption and the culture of impunity to...
The AlterMidya, a national network of independent and alternative media outfits, welcomes Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s signing today of an executive order (EO) implementing the Freedom of Information (FOI). The EO is an important step in promoting transparency and...
AlterMidya, a national network of alternative media practitioners, calls for the dropping of charges against the “Haran 15”, which includes one of our members from Kilab Multimedia, Jaja Necosia. The Haran 15 is a collective term for fifteen human rights advocates,...
We, alternative media members of AlterMidya, express our concern over Facebook's blocking of certain accounts of journalists, artists and activists apparently because they shared posts criticizing the Marcos family and the plans to move the late dictator Ferdinand...
President-elect Rodrigo Duterte errs in declaring that most journalists are being killed for being corrupt and in implying that only corrupt journalists have been killed in the Philippines. While corruption is a continuing problem in the press and media, it is simply...
AlterMidya, a nationwide network of independent media organizations, denounces police intimidation and attempts to suppress information by preventing journalists from covering the aftermath of the April 1 Kidapawan massacre. The Cotabato police set up a checkpoint...
AlterMidya, a national network of alternative media outfits and individuals, supports veteran journalist and press freedom advocate Inday Espina-Varona as she seeks redress for malicious and dangerous red-baiting engaged in by a top military official, the Philippine...
We in the AlterMidya (People's Alternative Media Network) deplore and condemn the red-tagging and sexual harassment on Bulatlat.com reporter Janess Ann Ellao by the lawyer of Staff Sgt. Edgardo Osorio, one of the accused in the enforced disappearance of UP students...
We in AlterMidya, a national network of independent and progressive media outfits are alarmed over the killing of two media practitioners in Sorsogon and Davao in the last two days. We condemn the continuing culture of impunity and violence in the country and demand...
The obsolete, repressive law on libel is one of the instruments of oppressors to attack the freedom of speech and expression and press freedom. Since 1986, more than 180 journalists have been killed and more still suffer from oppressive libel charges. Just recently in...
Five years after the massacre of 58 men and women including 32 journalists in Ampatuan town in Maguindanao, justice remains elusive and impunity still reigns. The promise of President Benigno Aquino III to help speedily resolve the case that has put the Philippines in...