GSIS ASSURES MEMBER DATA SAFETY AFTER SECURITY BREACH The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) on Friday assured its employees, members, and pensioners that their personal information remains secure following a confirmed security incident involving a compromised administrator account on a test computer. DIGITAL DIVIDE: GROWING RIFT BETWEEN BIG TECH AND Read more…
When former dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. was beginning to build his empire through unprecedented violence and corruption, he made sure to silence the press first. On this day five years ago, Marcos Sr. declared Martial Law, which led to the shutdown of numerous press outlets and arrests of top news Read more…
Philippine court orders regulator to restore license of news site Rappler A Philippine court has ordered the country’s corporate regulator to restore the license of Rappler, a news site co-founded by Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, a prominent critic of former President Rodrigo Duterte. Philippines: IFJ welcomes reversal of Rappler shutdown Read more…
ON THE FIRST OBSERVATION OF NATIONAL PRESS FREEDOM DAY The Philippines observes its first National Press Freedom Day today, August 30, 2022, after former president Rodrigo Duterte signed into law Republic Act No. 11699 on April 13. However, we recognize that continued media repression, threats to free expression, and journalists’ Read more…
As we celebrate World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the Foundation for Media Alternatives (FMA) is one with the community in promoting press freedom as a basic human right, one that needs to be protected more than ever amid threats facing journalism and journalists. In the Philippines, media organizations, Read more…
Statement of the Foundation for Media Alternatives, 20 years after People Power I The Foundation for Media Alternatives adds its voice to the growing national chorus expressing grave misgivings at the issuance of Proclamation 1017 declaring a national state of emergency. Although we grant the State the prerogative to protect Read more…