BALIKAS NEWS NETWORK (BNN) is a growing mass media company in the Philippines with editorial and business office in Batangas City. It's weekly newspaper, Pahayagang Balikas, is now on its 26th year of circulation in Southern Luzon provinces; while its online news and information portal, Balikas.net has been on the net since 2015. Soon, the BNN will serve the Mimaropa provinces via The Mimaropa New
s. Pahayagang Balikas is a community newspaper, covering community and environmental issues circulating around the Southern Tagalog. First published as a monthly community newspaper in Mauban, Quezon in March 1996. Primarily published in Filipino [while, there are occasional articles in English] as an advocacy of the first publishers - Malou Babilonia and David Pollard, Filipino-Americans who established the non-government organization Babilonia-Wilner Foundation (BWF). The name BALIKAS is derived from two Filipino words "balik" and "likas". “Balikas” thus connotes the advocacy to bring back to nature (“pagbabalik sa kalikasan”). Pahayagang Balikas gives more emphasis on environmental concerns and the efforts of both the public and private sector on the ecology, business and community living. After 18 long years, Pahayagang Balikas is now owned and managed by PAHAYAGANG BALIKAS, INC., a stock corporation duly organized and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with Company Registration No. CS201401804. The paper exercises complete independence and has never been owned nor been subservient to any political party. How to reach us. Our editorial and business offices is located at the BALIKAS CENTRE, Blk. 2, Lot 6, M.M. Agoncillo St., De Claro-Punzalan Compound, Alangilan, Batangas City, and RIDS Law Office, Zenaida Arcade, 43 M.H. Del Pilar St., Brgy. 2, Batangas City with the following contact information:
Contact Person : Joenald Medina Rayos
Publisher
Chairman, PAHAYAGANG BALIKAS, Inc.
