The Altermidya Network condemns the attacks on community journalists covering the farmers’ protest at the Department of Agrarian Reform earlier today, October 19. Quezon City police attempted to nab Bulatlat reporter Aaron Ernest Cruz while the protest was ongoing, even as Cruz identified...
They are at it again: harassing and maliciously red-tagging journalists, including veteran journalist and AlterMidya host Inday Espina-Varona, Nonoy Espina of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), Froilan Gallardo of Mindanews, and several...
(Joint Statement: Alipato Media Center for Bulatlat, Altermidya Network, Kodao Productions, Pinoy Media Center Inc. for PinoyWeekly, Plaintiffs; and IP Converge Data Services Inc., Ernesto R. Alberto, Nerissa S. Ramos, Anabelle L. Chua, Juan Victor I. Hernandez,...
Solicitor General Jose Calida is on a vicious roll – aimed not only against ABS-CBN, but against the very tenets of our freedom of expression, speech, and of the press. Calida filed a quo warranto petition last week to void the network’s franchise. Now he has also...
Altermidya Network condemns the arrest of our colleague in Tacloban, Frenchie Mae Cumpio of Eastern Vista. Cumpio was arrested with 4 other known human rights leaders in Tacloban City, including Marissa Cabaljao, spokesperson of People Surge Network in the...
The Altermidya Network strongly denounces the continued harassment against community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio of the Tacloban-based outfit Eastern Vista. Amid reports of an impending police raid of a progressive group’s office in Tacloban — similar to the Negros...
Altermidya Network, a broad formation of alternative media outfits and community journalists in the Philippines, condemns in the highest possible terms the recent red-tagging and intimidation committed by regional state forces to our colleague Sherwin De Vera of...
National alternative media group Altermidya strongly denounces the intimidation and arrest of Davao-based reporter Glenn Jester Hitgano of Radyo ni Juan. Hitgano was interviewing protesting workers from banana company Philippine Dream Farm Dev’t in Carmen, Davao del...
Altermidya, the nationwide network of independent and progressive media outfits, stands in full support with the call of thousands of media workers, actors, directors, and employees of ABS-CBN for the renewal of the franchise of the broadcast network, which is set to...
STATEMENT OF ALTERMIDYA NETWORK ON THE AMPATUAN MASSACRE VERDICT The conviction of members of the Ampatuan clan is an initial victory of the families and of the people who have joined their long journey for justice. We hail the courage and determination of families,...
IT HAS BEEN A DARK DECADE of injustice for families and loved ones of the victims of the Ampatuan massacre, which killed 58 individuals, 32 of them journalists. A decade of unbearable grief and pain, as they watch the masterminds of the world’s single deadliest attack...
Altermidya Network condemns the surveillance conducted by suspected state security forces against Philippine Collegian, student publication of University of the Philippines Diliman. At around 9:30 p.m. yesterday, November 16, a certain Wilfredo Manapat tried to break...
Altermidya expresses alarm at the information that the Philippine National Police is planning to serve a warrant of arrest to someone supposedly within the premises of IBON Building in Timog Ave., Quezon City where we, and several other local and international NGOs...