The MindaNews Podcast

Welcome to Kahimtang, a podcast exploring mental health and resilience in the Mindanao context. Here we discuss stories of everyday people navigating trauma, loss, and social struggles, and celebrate the strength and resourcefulness that thrives within Mindanao communities. Join us as we explore culturally-sensitive approaches to the practice of psychology, discover local heroes advocating for men...

In the maiden episode of the second season of the Media Villager podcast, host Walter Balane, a journalism educator and researcher, explores community documentation and reporting. By exploring the concepts of community, documentation, and reporting, this episode tackles his experiences with grassroots documentation projects in various Mindanao communities and their role in addressing local issues...

The term regional cinema was coined, or became a wave in the landscape of Philippine cinema, with the inception of the Cinema Rehiyon, an annual exhibition and gathering of regional cinemas and filmmakers all over the Philippines, led by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). It has always identified films with a certain rootedness to place, culture, language, and local realities...

In December last year, just before Christmas, at the rooftop bar of Suazo in Davao, film critic Jay Rosas sat down and recorded a podcast with two of the most promising Davao filmmakers: Conrad dela Cruz and Joshua Cesar ‘Wowa’ Medroso, who started their current filmmaking path almost the same time, when their short films competed at the 17th Mindanao Film Festival in 2019. Medroso made ⁠Trabungko...

In this first episode of the Lifting Local Podcast, we feature Olive Puentespina of Malagos Farmhouse Cheese, an icon of Davao culinary specialties. This business, along with other endeavors they have such as Malagos Chocolate and Davao Thermo Biotec Corporation, are truly some of the most impactful local businesses in Davao and Mindanao. Executive Producer: Yas D. Ocampo Host: Liezl Salera-Manaba...

The Pilot Episode features MindaNews editors Bobby Timonera and Boy Mordeno and social media manager Yas D. Ocampo talking about their adventures in running. 🏃‍♂️ Executive Producer: Yas D. Ocampo Art by Keith Bacongco

During the 2022 Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival—a Filipino film festival still largely Manila-centric—four films tackled Mindanao in their narratives, whether as a central subject and setting, or tangentially, with the 2017 Marawi Siege in the background. The production of these films followed the tradition of film production that dates back to Marilou Diaz Abaya’s Bagong Buwan (New Moon) mad...

In this first music edition of the MindaNews Podcast, Yano co-founder and guitarist Eric Gancio shares with journalist Yas D. Ocampo the ups and downs of iconic Filipino rock icon Yano. Gancio discusses the band's beginnings, their rise to fame in the 1990s, and their continued influence on Filipino music. This podcast episode is brought to you in partnership with Holodeck Productions, Cinedashery...

This edition is brought to you in partnership with the No Burn Pilipinas campaign of the Eco-Waste Coalition, under the Break Free from Plastic project. Davao City is pursuing a plan to build a waste to energy plant, and environmentalists are not convinced this should be the way to go. According to representatives from No Burn Philippines and Interfacing Development Interventions, there are alread...

This is a podcast edition of COVID, Conflicts and the Peace Process online forum: focus on Marawi City . May 23, it will have been four years since they were forced out of their homes and while many of them have returned, most of the 27,000 families in ‘Ground Zero’ or the former main battle area between government forces and the Maute Group and its allies, have yet to return home. We will also ch...

The pandemic has made the political transition in the two-year-old autonomous region even more fragile as skirmishes between government forces and extremist groups, inter-clan disputes and conflicts over land, sent thousands of residents to evacuation centers where observing minimum health protocols such as physical distancing, washing of hands with soap and wearing of face masks, is a major chall...

Listen to the message of Davao Archbishop Emeritus Fernando Capalla, chair of the Bishops-Ulama Conference, on the Mindanao Week of Peace 2020, which runs from November 26 to December 2. This year's theme is "Dialogue Towards Harmony."

Welcome back to Reporting Mindanao, an online forum initiated by MindaNews to discuss various concerns in Mindanao and to provide journalists a venue to enhance their understanding and reporting of these issues. This episode is the podcast version of the web forum held last November 16, 2020 For this edition, we are launching our Monitoring in Marawi Series, with “Voices from Marawi” because that...

You’re listening to the second part of the Bangsamoro in Transition series of Reporting Mindanao. This podcast edition examines the progress of the Normalization track of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao as mandated by  Republic Act 11054, the enabling law of the 2014 peace agreement. How many combatants and weapons of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front have been decommissio...

You are listening to Reporting Mindanao, an online media forum initiated by MindaNews to discuss various concerns in Mindanao and to provide journalists a venue to enhance their understanding and reporting of these issues.   We begin our Bangsamoro in Transition series with a two-part session on the mid-term review conducted by the Mindanao Peoples Caucus on the three-year transition of the B...

Where do our disposable PPEs go?: Assessing waste management in the time of COVID-19 It has been six months since COVID-19 disrupted our lives: the way we do business, how we interact with our family and community, our traditions, school systems, and how we face the world when we do venture outside our homes. In this podcast of our web forum held online on August 24, we have invited resource speak...

For this edition, let us remember Fr. Teresito "Chito" Soganub, martyr of inter-religious dialogue, who survived 117 days as hostage of violent extremists in Marawi  City in 2017. The Vicar-General of the Prelature of Marawi spent 23 years in the country’s lone Islamic city. After his escape from his captors,Fr. Chito was not given any pastoral assignment to allow him to undergo trauma healin...

For this edition, we broadcast the full audio recording of the online press conference in Davao City on August 3, 2020 on the filing of a petition via registered mail and e-mail to ask the Supreme Court to declare the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 unconstitutional. According to the Mindanawon petitioners--a Moro leader, a human rights worker and three journalists — and an organization catering to the...