Archive for June, 2014

FRIDAY, JUNE 20, was not just the 25th anniversary of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. Aside from celebrating its 25th birthday, the PCIJ also inaugurated its new home. Two and a half decades after its founding, the Center finally...

June 20, 2014 · Posted in: General

PCIJ is 25!

TODAY, the extended family of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism comes together for a night of fellowship, celebration, and remembrance of an adventure begun a quarter of a century ago that, by all appearances, shows no sign of...

ON THE 25th anniversary of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, Sheila Coronel, PCIJ founding Executive Director and Dean of Academic Affairs of Columbia University in New York, delivered a lecture on Doing Watchdog Journalism in the 21st...

THE PHILIPPINE Center for Investigative Journalism has always had a fixation with the issue of campaign finance - the relationships between political candidates and their donors or contributors, and how these relationships help define the behavior of...

HE WAS SWEPT into power by an overwhelming populist vote, yet Joseph Ejercito Estrada, the 13th President of the Republic, proved to be much more than just any ordinary citizen. Beginning July 2000, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism...

FOR SO LONG, journalism was heavily dominated by the men; while the women seemed to have greater facility for language and discipline for detail, the men proved overly protective of what they considered a man's turf. The drawing of such artificial...

IT MAY SEEM strange to some that the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, an organization of independent journalists, is involved in certain advocacies. The PCIJ is active in movements that promote press freedom, human rights, democracy,...