INVESTIGATIVE reports on governance and corruption won major prizes in the 20th Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism (JVOAEJ) held today at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati. PCIJ fellow Roel Landingin's three-part series on...

AS THE world marks Press Freedom Week (3-9 May 2009), it is most fitting to review situations in Asia where that freedom remains an elusive dream. Burma is one such critical situation that we should all keep to heart. Forty-seven years ago in 1962, a...

THE PCIJ again emerged victorious at the 2008 Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) held recently in Tokyo, Japan, garnering the top prize in one of four categories and clinching runner-up honors in another. Alecks P. Pabico, the Center's multimedia...

TOKYO -- The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) is again vying for honors for excellence in journalistic reporting that cover development trends and issues in Asia at the 2008 Developing Asia Journalism Awards (DAJA) organized and...

PCIJ contributor Joseph Israel Laban shares this personal essay in the wake of the historic election victory the other day of Democrat Barack Obama, making the freshman senator of Illinois, Chicago the first African American president of the United...

COVERAGE of the conflict in Mindanao seldom tackles its economic and social costs beyond the deaths and injuries among combatants and civilians caught in the crossfire, damage to property and infrastructure, and to some extent, deaths and illnesses...

THE reputation for accuracy and freedom from bias of journalists rests on the credibility of their sources. This is even more so when they are covering conflicts as well as peace efforts, as is the case in Mindanao. For the sixth session of the...