MARAWI CITY -- Election reform activists and watchdogs, and election officials have expressed hope that the unusual calm in Lanao del Sur today, eve of election day, will not be the calm before the storm.
As of 4 pm Sunday, not a single...
by Cong B. Corrales
slideshow by Cong B. Corrales
FOR A DAY, journalists let go of pen and paper and held on uncertainly to sticks and paper as the world celebrated World Press Freedom Day last May 3.
Media groups assembled at the open field...
May 7, 2013 | In: 2013 Elections, Access to Information, Free Expression - Asia, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Human Rights, Journalist Killings, Media, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch, Online Research, Paper Chase, Peace and Conflict
PCIJ’s Basic Investigative Reporting Seminar: Political Clans, Governance, and Journalists’ Safety
Open to mid-career and senior Filipino journalists, citizen media, and bloggers
Researchers, anchors, producers, editors, news managers,...
May 2, 2013 | In: 2013 Elections, Access to Information, Civil Society, Cross Border, Free Expression - Asia, Freedom of Information, General, Governance, Human Rights, Journalist Killings, Media, Noynoy Watch, The Judiciary
TOMORROW, MAY 3, is World Press Freedom Day.
Yet instead of joyful celebration, solemn tribute through action on the cases of journalists who had been killed, and whose killers remain at large, should mark the day, according to the New York-based...
The full PCIJ documentary on the Maguindanao clans is now online
A VIDEO DOCUMENTARY produced by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) on the continuing rule of the political clans in Maguindanao province may now be viewed...
Vendiola: 130th journalist killed since 1986
ANOTHER BROADCASTER was shot and killed Monday morning in Barangay Salipyasin, Kabasalan town, Zamboanga Sibugay province.
Mario Vendiola, more popularly known in his radio program as Kuya Mar, was...
THE DATU system, an ancient political and social structure that has defined much of the history of the southern Philippines, provides continuity between a proud past and the tumultuous present in Maguindanao.
Yet it is one that has radically evolved --...
