Archive for April, 2014

(photo from President Aquino's official Facebook page) PRESIDENT BENIGNO S. AQUINO III again drew the ire of media organizations and an international human rights group for his recent statements on the murder of newsmen in the country. This time...

(photo from Rowena Paraan's Facebook page) ROWENA PARAAN, national chairperson of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines and former research head of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, has been named one of the...

PLEASE BE ADVISED that the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism now has new telephone numbers. Our old numbers are no longer working. Please feel free to get in touch, offer suggestions, or offer to bring us coffee. Either way, we would...

WHEN HE WAS still a presidential hopeful, then Senator Benigno S. Aquino III told reporters that he would support the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill. Three years into his term, however, President Aquino has still not certified the...

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yd7laX7iB4] AS THE NATION celebrates Easter Sunday, people are reminded of the timeless concepts of death and rebirth. One lonely voice made this point abundantly clear two thousand years ago - that only in...

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azom4XfCdBc] CUTUD VILLAGE, San Fernando, Pampanga – The re-enactment here of the Pasyon, the life and death of Jesus Christ, is a curious mix of old and new, of the spiritual and the worldly. The iron smell...

AGALON SANG KADUTAAN, the title of this slideshow produced by veteran journalist and PCIJ multimedia producer Julius D. Mariveles, literally translates to Masters of the Land. If the title sounds so feudal, it is because the system really...