LEAVE IT to Filipinos to still be upbeat and optimistic even after being ignored for two and a half decades. It was a morning of rousing speeches, exhortations, and songs as more than 150 civil society, media, and other advocates' groups trooped to the...

(photo by Cong B. Corrales) FROM SAUDI ARABIA to Santolan in Quezon City, from Australia to Angono in Rizal, close to 500 people have already signed up in support of the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill just two hours after the online...

ADVOCATES of the long-delayed Freedom of Information Act (FOI) have launched a nationwide signature campaign to press President Benigno S. Aquino III and leaders of the House of Representatives to finally pass the FOI bill during the 16th...

  DOCUMENTS ARE KEY in investigating public officials and in uncovering their wealth. However, journalists should also be warned that official documents can lie, just like the officials who prepare them. Malou Mangahas, director of the...

WITH SO MUCH attention diverted to national officials such as legislators and their misuse of the pork barrel, little attention is focused on local government units, those little kingdoms governed by local executives who feel that they are under various...

(Photos by Julius Mariveles) THE PHILIPPINE CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM has launched the second leg of its seminar series on Advanced Investigative Reporting with 16 senior journalists and editors from Mindanao taking part in the three-day...

MEDIA GROUPS have complained about increasing government restrictions on Freedom of Expression even as the government itself goes slow on the passage of a Freedom of Information Act. Recently, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the...