Political ads, more than just pesos and cents, are at core about putting across credible messages and getting the votes. This is the focus of Part 2 of our latest report on the political ads of the top six candidates for president that in the three...

Our latest two-part report reveals that in the last three months before the election campaign period started, six of the 10 candidates for president had racked up advertising values on television, radio and print media worth a whopping P2.1...

Our latest report reveals the gaps and holes in the “Statement of Electoral Contributions and Expenses” that candidates for president, vice president and senator had filed since 1998. The popular perception is that running an election campaign has...

Our latest report written by PCIJ Fellow Roel R. Landingin exposes what population experts call “a statistical anomaly” with grave implications on the conduct and results of the May 10, 2010 elections – the inexplicable sharp spike in the...

Our latest story, written by senior journalist and Mindanao expert Carolyn Arguillas, details the candidacy of 10 of the 12  Ampatuan clan members who have been implicated as respondents or conspirators in the November 23, 2009 Maguindanao...

The Correspondent, the magazine of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong, featured the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) in its January-February 2010 issue. The report by Jonathan Sharp focused on the impact of the PCIJ’s...

Three senior Ampatuans, respondents in the Nov. 23, 2009 massacre of 57 persons, including 31 journalists, in Maguindanao, are now in jail, but the clan could not be counted out as yet as players in the May 2010 elections. At least 68 Ampatuans and...