“PCIJ had wished only for the Dutertes to offer clear, direct, straightforward replies to our queries.”
Category: Media
Counterattack
By DEE AYROSO
A second look at the charges filed vs. IT companies over news sites cyberattacks
In this report, we take a second look on the charges filed against IT companies IP Converge and Suniway Group of Companies. The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers provided legal assistance to the alternative media outfits.
Alternative media outfits identify cyber-attackers, file complaints
Alternative media outfits identified two companies behind the intense cyber attacks against them since December.
Int’l media watchdog ‘mirrors’ Philippine alternative news amid cyber-attacks
International media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has included in their website mirroring campaign two Philippine alternative news websites, Bulatlat and Kodao Productions, following the intense cyber-attacks since December.
What World Day against Cyber Censorship means to Filipino journalists
By targeting the Philippine alternative press, however, those behind the attack inadvertently highlighted its role in shaping public opinion.
On World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, state-sponsored attack vs. Philippine alternative media assailed
“We have reason to believe that the Duterte administration has orchestrated this cyber attack on websites of critical and independent media as part of its efforts to silence criticism and dissent against it,” said Ronalyn Olea, managing editor of Bulatlat.
‘Time to fight back for alternative news under attack’
Since December, Bulatlat and several alternative media outfits have been experiencing a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, where the server of a website is maliciously being overloaded to shut it down.
GMA 7 talents are regular employees, appellate court rules
“Truly, without their work, petitioner GMA would have nothing to air, hence the private respondents’ services in the former’s television program were unquestionably necessary and essential.”
Students walk out of class to call for press freedom
“If we recall, during the Marcos dictatorship, the first thing he did was to suppress the media.
Youth and students slam systematic attacks on media
MANILA — On Feb. 14, youth and students together with media practitioners trooped to the College of Mass Communication in University of the Philippines in Diliman denouncing the recent attack against press freedom. This is after the arrest of Rappler chief executive officer, Maria Ressa on Wednesday, Feb, 13. She was arrested by members of…