(Image credit: Bulatlat.com) MANILA, Philippines—The websites of two alternative media organizations in the Philippines have been under series of cyberattacks involving digital infrastructure linked to the state, particularly the military and the Department of Science...
[Alert] Kodao.org under intense cyber attack again
Kodao's website www.kodao.org is again under intense cyber attack. Tens of millions of suspicious requests are flooding the site in yet another distributed denial of service attack similar to what it suffered in 2019. Kodao reported the attack started last Friday,...
[Alert] Cyber attackers attempt to bring down Bulatlat website
(Illustration taken from Bulatlat.com) Website of online media outfit Bulatlat was again subjected to distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks, a type of cyber attack aiming to bring down the site, according to Sweden-based media foundation Qurium. This is the...
[Statement] Filipino journalists stand in solidarity with media workers in Palestine
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines stands with the International Federation of Journalists and media workers around the world in condemning the bombing of the Al-Jalaa building, which housed the offices of Al Jazeera and the Associated Press,...
[Alert] Police bar Rappler Cebu correspondent from covering release of detained Lumad teacher, tag Rappler as ‘fake news’
WATCH. While waiting for the release of Lumad teacher Chad Booc, police allow other media outlets inside the PRO-7 except Rappler, calling us a fake news outlet. Rappler has extensively covered the Lumad arrests, reaching out to police for comments on...
[Statement] A year off the air but never silenced
Today marks one year since the National Telecommunication Communications issued a cease-and-desist order on ABS-CBN and millions watched the network sign off at the end of "TV Patrol." The order, which members of Congress had assured the network and the public...
Philippine Media Statement on the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020
The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on petitions against the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020. We, editors and reporters of news organizations around the Philippines, join the voices of various sectors opposing provisions of the law that trample upon...
[Alert] Former NUJP Capiz chair shot dead
(Screenshot from Bombo Radyo Roxas) Pilar, Capiz administrator John Heredia, a longtime member of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines, was shot dead by motorcycle-riding gunmen at Barangay Lawa-an, Roxas City Sunday afternoon, May 2. The victim...
[Alert] A day before World Press Freedom Day, police raids house of campus journalist in Bicol
At around 4 a.m. today, May 2, around 40 elements of PNP-CIDG raided the house of student journalist Justine Mesias, in Daraga, Albay. Mesias is senior editor of college publication Cassipi Online of Bicol University and spokesperson of Youth Act Now Against Tyranny...