April 27, 2016 | In: 2016 Elections, Campaign Finance, Civil Society, Comelec Watch, Data Journalism, Freedom of Information, Governance, In the News, Investigative Reports, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch
By Floreen Simon and Malou Mangahas
EVEN WITH just part of their campaign spending captured by Nielsen Media's monitoring of their political ads from Feb. 9 to the end of March, at least two presidential and two senatorial candidates have already...
April 16, 2015 | In: 2016 Elections, Access to Information, Bangsamoro, Campaign Finance, Civil Society, Comelec Watch, Data Journalism, Free Expression - Asia, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Local Government, Media, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch, Peace and Conflict
THE Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism will be conducting a series of four four-day investigative reporting seminars in Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao, and Metro Manila from May-September 2015.
The second leg will be for participants from...
February 3, 2015 | In: 2016 Elections, Civil Society, Comelec Watch, Congress Watch, Free Expression - Asia, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Human Rights, In the News, Investigative Reports, Noynoy Watch
CHECK out our February 2, 2015 posts about the silent emergency under the Aquino administration. With four Constitutional Commissions becoming headless starting yesterday and until May 2015, what will be the challenges for the government?
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February 2, 2015 | In: 2016 Elections, Access to Information, Civil Society, Comelec Watch, Congress Watch, Free Expression - Asia, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, In the News, Noynoy Watch
By Fernando Cabigao Jr.
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
SHE IS the first female head of the Commission on Audit, but that will not be the only distinction Maria Gracia Pulido-Tan will be remembered for after her term of office lapses...
By Che de los Reyes
THEY WERE warned to watch out, and now they are bound to cry.
According to the Commission on Elections (Comelec), nearly 400 local candidates in the 2010 and 2013 elections may soon be facing charges of campaign overspending,...
THE PEOPLE’S initiative versus the pork barrel might fail if the current Commission on Elections will count the votes during a referendum for the approval of a law that would ban the fund.
This was the warning of Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz, one...
By Malou Mangahas
SOME OF the 424 public officials who had earned dishonorable mention in the list of those who failed to file or filed bad election spending reports have complained about a few things.
"OA" or overacting, Speaker Feliciano Belmonte...
