Journalism's economic crisis grows ever deeper for thousands of media globally, and worse hit are those in the majority world. Following a two-year deep dive into regional perspectives in Latin Americ...
Roby Alampay
Roby Alampay is an award-winning journalist in the Philippines who has also made his name in advocacies for press freedom and independent media development throughout Southeast Asia. He is currently Adviser for the Philippine Program of International Media Support. Prior to joining IMS, Roby was the first executive director of the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), and for a time served on the advisory board for Open Society Foundation's Program on Independent Journalism. A product of the University of the Philippines and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, he has been recognized for both his journalism and his media development and advocacy work. His startup, PumaPodcast, is the leading journalism podcast in the Philippines and Southeast Asia, producing the first podcasts out of Asia to be curated for inclusion in the US Library Congress Podcast Preservation Project. PumaPodcast has also received recognition and awards such as from the Society of Publishers of Asia, and the Human Rights Press Freedom Award handed out by the The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong and Amnesty International.
Amid disinformation, economic turmoil and state control of the free press, how do we shift power to independent newsrooms? How can the journalism community tear down structural barriers and support vi...
It’s no secret that there’s a funding and financing crisis for journalism everywhere around the world. Most of the money to support independent media around the world comes from philanthropies, go...
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