PCIJ’s Sheila Coronel wins
Columbia teaching award

Sheila Coronel, the founding executive director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, adds another feather to her cap next month when she receives the Presidential Teaching Award from Columbia University. The award, which honors five members of the Ivy League school’s faculty every year, recognizes the best teachers in the university in developing students and contributing to the overall academic excellence.

In 2006, Coronel joined the Columbia Journalism School to head the newly-established Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. She co-founded the PCIJ in 1989 and served as the center’s executive director until her move to the United States. A graduate of the University of the Philippines and the London School of Economics, Coronel authored and edited over a dozen books while leading the PCIJ to become one of the foremost media organizations in the region. Today, Coronel continues to be involved with the center as part of its Board of Editors.

In 2003, she was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts for her work in leading “a groundbreaking collaborative effort to develop investigative journalism as a critical component of democratic discourse in the Philippines.”