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...
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...
Altermidya - People’s Alternative Media Network opposes legislative proposals to regulate social media content in the name of combating fake news and disinformation. While disinformation is a pressing issue, government regulation of expression is more often wielded...
March 24, 2025 - A coalition of international and local press freedom organisations call for the immediate and unconditional release of Philippine community journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, who has been held in detention for more than five years, as she wrapped up her...
Today, February 7, marks the fifth year of journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio’s detention under the trumped-up charges of illegal possession of firearms and explosives and terrorist financing. It has been five long years since the Gestapo-like raids were conducted in...
Altermidya Network strongly condemns the baseless terrorism financing complaint filed against Deo Montesclaros, a multimedia reporter for Pinoy Weekly and former correspondent of The Northern Dispatch. These false accusations are part of the state’s ongoing...
In her second time taking the witness stand on January 13, 2025, journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio will refute charges of ‘terrorism financing’ against her and lay worker Marielle Domequil. The case is but another trumped-up charge compounded on the illegal possession of...
As we mark the 15th year since the brutal Ampatuan Massacre, widely regarded as the worst case of election-related violence and the worst attack on media workers in Philippine history, we continue our fight for justice. Justice because convictions in the case came a...
The Altermidya Network reiterates the call to dismiss the charges against our colleague Frenchie Mae Cumpio and the rest of 'Tacloban 5' as the community journalist took the stand for the first time in almost five years on Nov. 11. In yesterday's hearing,...
Nananawagan kami para sa kagyat na pagpapalaya ng kapwa mamamahayag na si Frenchie Mae Cumpio, isang community journalist at Executive Director ng Eastern Vista, kasapi ng Altermidya Network at ng International Association of Women in Radio and Television-Philippines....