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...
THE CONVICTION of two radio broadcasters in Kidapawan City for simply expressing their opinion in social media –supposedly meant to provide an avenue for personal opinions and narratives – is the latest attack on free expression not only of media practitioners but of...
Marking the anniversary of the first ever internet connection in the Philippines, alternative media outifts are fighting back as they filed a civil complaint for damages against two companies found by experts to be the source of the relentless cyber-attacks against...
UNITY STATEMENT OF ALTERMIDYA NETWORK, NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALISTS IN THE PHILIPPINES, LET’S ORGANIZE FOR DEMOCRACY & INTEGRITY (LODI), COLLEGE EDITORS GUILD OF THE PHILIPPINES The arrest of Rappler CEO Maria Ressa on spurious cyber libel charges under...
The AlterMidya Network, a national network of over 30 independent and alternative news organizations in the Philippines, strongly condemns the continuing series of cyberattacks against two of its members, online news outfits Bulatlat.com and Kodao Productions. On...
Graphics by Kaye Pancho WE DENOUNCE the recent cyberattacks on the news sites of Altermidya members Bulatlat, Kodao, and Pinoy Weekly. Their websites were evident targets of distributed denial of service or DDOS attacks, which made the websites inaccessible since...
ALTERMIDYA, a nationwide network of alternative media outfits, finds the decision to revoke the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registration of online news site Rappler deeply troubling. The SEC decision is a serious danger to press freedom and freedom of...
ALTERMIDYA Network denounces the recent attacks against our colleagues Kathyrine Cortez of the Mindanao-based Radyo Ni Juan and columnist Sherwin De Vera of Northern Dispatch Weekly. Cortez received threatening anonymous messages on Dec. 18, while De Vera was...
AlterMidya Statement on the "Fake News'" Bill (Senate Bill 1492) WHILE the proliferation of fake news is admittedly damaging to citizen discussion and debate on public issues, if passed into law Senate Bill (SB) 1492 would be even more detrimental to free expression...
TUDLA PRODUCTIONS strongly condemns the harassment experienced by our video journalist, Ariel Bernardo Jebulan, by members of the Philippine Army on June 17, between 4 and 5 p.m. at the Suarez (National Steel Corporation) checkpoint in Iligan City. Jebulan,...
WE AT THE Altermidya denounce the Philippine military's threat to censor the press, including social media, during the implementation of martial law in Mindanao. AFP spokesperson Brig. Gen. Restituto Padilla on Friday told the media that the military will exercise its...
WE IN THE alternative media denounce the attempt to silence respected journalist Inday Espina Varona, whose account was disabled by social media site Facebook. Varona’s verified FB account was blocked today after she was apparently reported as “not following Community...
ALTERMIDYA, a national network of alternative media groups, strongly condemns the attack on journalists covering the protest at the US embassy Wednesday morning. Close to a thousand protesters, mostly indigenous people, were about to conclude their demonstration when...