UNIDENTIFIED GUNMEN abducted two Moro filmmakers who were working on an independent film project in troubled Sulu province in the Southern Philippines over the weekend. Len Manriquez, operations head of the Peace and Conflict Journalism Network...

THOSE WHO LIVE in Metro Manila are used to the idea that towns and cities normally have multiple and huge barangays. In fact one barangay in Bagong Silang, Kalookan City, has more than 200,000 residents. On the other hand, one barangay in Sampaloc has...

AFTER MORE THAN a decade of frustration and disappointment, advocates of the long-delayed Freedom of Information (FOI) bill are now trying a new and untested tack to push the measure through the legislative mill. Spurned by Congress and largely...

INDEPENDENCE DAY, June 12, is that day we proudly say we have started charting our own future as a nation. But was Independence Day always on June 12? For today's Data a Day, PCIJ's MoneyPolitics asks that question: When were we really independent?...

THERE SEEMED to be no real intention to bully or bash media, or push journalists to the wall. True, it took third parties like experts from the academe to pinpoint what is wrong about Philippine journalism. But, there was a resulting introspection that...

NEARLY A year would seem plenty time for senatorial candidates and their political parties to study the campaign-finance rules and regulations for the May 2013 elections so that they could comply correctly. After all, the Commission on Elections (Comelec)...

TODAY, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) lifts the veil of secrecy on offshore accounts with its public launch of an interactive database of 2.5 million leaked files covering the secret trust accounts and companies of...