Archive for May, 2011

Our latest two-part report looks at the work of the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) in the first 20 years of its existence from 1988 to 2008, as well as the lack of transparency in its screening of nominees to the judiciary. The 1987 Constitution...

May 17, 2011 · Posted in: In the News, Media

Remembering Chit Estella

Colleagues from the journalism community paid their last respects to investigative journalist Lourdes "Chit" Estella-Simbulan, whose remains were cremated today (May 17) at the Arlington chapels in Quezon City. Chit was killed in a taxi-bus collision...

FILIPINO journalists are being killed without let-up, their children had been orphaned and their families reduced to penury, but investigators continue to falter and bungle, defense lawyers snitch every chance to delay court proceedings, and justice for...

The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism has been conducting a series of seminar-workshops with journalists from print, broadcast, and online media across the nation on the relentless surge in media killings, and the quest for justice for...

(Source: Allansi Jurnalis Independen) Policemen attacked four Indonesian journalists while they were covering a peaceful rally staged by the Chinese group Falun Gong in Surabaya City, East Java, on 7 May 2011, media reports said. The "Jakarta Post"...

PCIJ's documentary entry MAGUINDANAO: ISANG TAON (Maguindanao: One Year After) The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) won three prizes during the first Red Cross Humanitarian Reporting Awards organized by the International...

As a local partner of Global Integrity, an award-winning international nonprofit organization that tracks governance and corruption trends globally, the PCIJ is pleased to share with you the results of the 2010 Global Integrity survey of 36 countries,...