EVERY REPORTER knows about the usual tools of the trade. In the old days, these were ballpens and notebooks, and maybe a working telephone if you're lucky. These days, reporters lug around laptops and tablets, using wireless broadband internet (look Ma,...

IN THE LAST 25 years, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism has grown - to a full complement of 13 people. It really is a small organization for one that has generated such an impact on Philippine politics and media in the last quarter...

ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTAGE has always been a point of pride for the PCIJ. After the Center was established in 1989, one of the first things that PCIJ Executive Director Sheila Coronel did was to establish an Environment Desk. It was a message powerful in its...

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, nine veteran journalists established the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. Much has changed since 1989, in the realm of politics, the economy, society - and technology as well. Indeed, the way we do journalism has...

IN 2002, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism trekked to the mountains of Nueva Vizcaya and dove into the seas off Palawan in order to tell the oft-unheard stories of indigenous peoples. The result was Katutubo: Memories of Dances, a...

WHEN NINE senior journalists banded together to form the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism in 1989, none of them imagined that their baby would ever go beyond the boundaries of print. After all, print media was their common root. Four...

PEOPLE JOIN journalism for different reasons. Some do it for fame, some do it for glamor. And some do it because they have nothing else to do. Some, thankfully, do it because they want to help create a more enlightened, informed, and engaged...