NO, THE PCIJ is really not in the business of teaching people how to be crooks. The training sessions that the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism holds for journalists are in fact geared towards catching crooks, their accomplices, and their...

By Edz de la Cruz At least six countries have said the Philippines has not done enough to address extrajudicial killings in the recently concluded Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the country’s human rights record before the United Nations...

[caption id="attachment_8977" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Image courtesy of rebelpixel.com[/caption] ED LINGAO, Multimedia Director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, is a man of many parts. Veteran journalist, war...

2012 Mcluhan Awardee Lynda Jumilla with Canadian Ambassador Christopher Thornley   DESPITE EXPECTATIONS that the high profile impeachment trial of impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona would blow away the culture of secrecy and usher a new...

Good news for transparency in the Supreme Court? Not quite. At long last, the high court  on Wednesday issued guidelines on the public disclosure of the Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALN) of the members of the judiciary, through an...

EVERY YEAR, writes PCIJ's founding Executive Director Sheila Coronel, over a trillion dollars, the equivalent of more than 45 trillion pesos, flow illicitly out of the world's economies. These monies, stashed away by politicians and crooked businessmen...

Zarganar claims his prize in Paris (photo from the Reporters Without Borders website) BURMESE BLOGGER, actor, and comedian Zarganar finally claimed the press freedom prize awarded to him by the international reporters group Reporters Without...