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...
Libel has always been a tool of government officials and influential individuals to stifle freedom of expression and silence critical media organizations.
STATEMENT ALTERMIDYA NETWORK condemns the brazen assault on press freedom against local community radio Radyo Natin Guimba (RNG) in Nueva Ecija, which faces charges of cyberlibel and alleged violations of the Bayanihan Act. The mayor’s charges against RNG, filed in...
Media groups under Altermidya Network filed a consolidated complaint before the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) for cases of press freedom violations against the alternative media perpetrated by state forces. The violations range from red-tagging, threat, harassment,...
STATEMENT Congress has done it again: betray the Filipino people. This time, by striking another blow to press freedom and the people’s right to know. To say that the members of the media sector are perturbed and disappointed is an understatement: we are beyond aghast...
We in the alternative media community stand in solidarity with journalist Maria Ressa and news outfit Rappler as the Manila Regional Trial Court hands down on June 15 its decision on the cyberlibel case filed against them over a 2012 story involving businessman...
A number of media advocacy, human rights and journalists’ organizations, as well as individual journalists and media practitioners and artists, have denounced the shutdown of television and radio network ABS-CBN as an attack on free expression and press freedom, and...
STATEMENT Information is of utmost importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Reporting the people’s grievances and demands is the solemn duty of the media; it is not a crime. The Guimba municipal council's Sangguniang Bayan Resolution No. 52 s.2020 last May 11...
JOINT STATEMENT (with updated signatures as of 9pm, May 16) Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade, Jr. of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) issued a statement Monday night claiming that “the ABS-CBN issue is about CPP [Communist Party of the...
Artists, groups join journalists in 'Black Friday Protests' vs. ABS-CBN Shutdown Like the previous Black Friday protests for press freedom that started last year, journalists, artists, and different groups came together to denounce the National Telecommunications...
STATEMENT WHILE THE DUTERTE REGIME is failing to flatten the curve of the coronavirus' spread, it is accelerating the curve of another mounting pandemic afflicting the nation – the pandemic of impunity. State forces are relentlessly pursuing attacks against the...
STATEMENT A turn for the worse – this best describes how the fundamental freedoms of speech, expression, and of the press have been abridged in the past months, with the attacks against press freedom escalating amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, May 3, as the world...
STATEMENT The Altermidya Network, together with independent journalists nationwide, demands the immediate release of seven Altermidya correspondents in Panay arrested on May 1. Our colleagues from Dampig Katarungan, Panay Today, and Panaysayon— all member outfits of...