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A PCIJ Documentary

Doc Gerry Ortega case
barely moving after one year

by Ed Lingao

EXACTLY ONE YEAR ago today (January 24), a gunman shot dead Palawan environmentalist and broadcast journalist Doc Gerry Ortega along Puerto Princesa’s busy highway. Ortega was one of Palawan’s most popular radio commentators, anchoring the radio program “Ramatak” on DWAR Radio Mindanao Network.

The alleged gunman, Marlon Recamata, was immediately caught by passing firemen and charged with murder. Recamata was also caught on the local government’s CCTV cameras casing the scene of the crime, and fleeing immediately after Ortega’s murder.

Read more… | Posted Thursday, January 26th, 2012
A PCIJ Documentary

Maguindanao:
The Quest for Justice

by Ed Lingao

MAGUINDANAO:The Quest for Justice is a documentary produced by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism on the second anniversary of the Maguindanao Massacre. After two years, the Ampatuans have allegedly ramped up efforts to reach a settlement with the families of the victims. The families of the victims continue to hold out against the proposed settlement, even as they try to survive from day to day. In the meantime, the Ampatuan clan continues to wield clout in the region with its vast resources and continuing political influence.

Read more… | Posted Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Photo Gallery

Niigata: Where kids have fun,
learn how to deal with disasters

by Karol Anne M. Ilagan

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Read more… | Posted Monday, March 7th, 2011
Photo Gallery

When Kobe rose from the ruins

by Karol Anne M. Ilagan

KOBE – When the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck on Jan. 17, 1995, this port city in western Japan was devastated in an instant, leaving 6,437 either dead or missing and about $100 billion worth of infrastructures damaged. Today there is not a trace of the tragic event in this city nestled in between mountains and [...]

Read more… | Posted Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011
Video

Jaywalking EDSA

by Ed Lingao

“Yung EDSA ’86 ba, kailan naganap?”

“Hindi ko po talaga alam, sir.”

The PCIJ asks young people what they know about the 1986 People Power revolution.

Read more… | Posted Friday, February 25th, 2011
A PCIJ Documentary

Maguindanao Massacre:
One Year After

by Ed Lingao

On November 23, 2009, 58 people were murdered by a local warlord from Maguindanao in the worst case of election violence in Philippine history. Police have charged members of members of the powerful and wealthy Ampatuan clan for the murder of the 58, who were in a convoy to the local election office to file the candidacy papers of a challenger to the incumbent political family.

Among the victims were 32 journalists, mostly from Central Mindanao. The incident marks the largest number of journalists killed in a single incident in the world, making the Philippines the most dangerous place for journalists in 2009. A year later, hope still flickers for the families of the victims, but the path to justice has been unbearably slow.

Read more… | Posted Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

Budget Talk

Interviews by Karol Ilagan, Che de los Reyes, and Ojie Sarmiento.

The PCIJ talked to regular people on the street and asked them about their knowledge about the government’s budget processes.

Read more… | Posted Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Video

House fails to ratify FOI due
to supposed lack of quorum

House Majority Leader Arthur Defensor motions to ratify the Freedom of Information Act, which was objected to by Camiguin representative Pedro Romualdo. Romualdo is prepared to be ‘condemned’ for blocking the passage of the proposed legislation as he questioned the lack of quorum in the chamber ‘as a matter of principle’.

Read more… | Posted Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Photo Slideshow

The elections as fiesta

by Karol Ilagan, Katreena Cosme and Camille de Asis

BARANGAY ADDITION HILLS, MANDALUYONG CITY – It’s a historical moment in the country’s electoral history that also turned into a mammoth fiesta for local candidates here who, in defiance of election rules, hang columns of posters and tarpaulins outside the Andres Bonifacio Integrated School.

Read more… | Posted Monday, May 10th, 2010
Photo Slideshow

Scenes from the first hour of voting at Commonwealth Elementary School

by Tita C. Valderama

As early as 5 a.m., voters began looking for the designated classrooms for the precincts in which they were registered. There were sheets posted at the entrance of the Commonwealth Elementary School in Quezon City’s second district, the biggest voting center in the city. Then, they had to negotiate through a crowd to look for their sequence number on the voter’s list posted outside the classroom. A member of the Board of Election Inspectors distributes numbers outside to make sure queuing for entrance to the voting room is done orderly. While waiting for their turn, the voters are requested to gather in a holding room adjacent to the voting room for instructions on the voting process.

Read more… | Posted Monday, May 10th, 2010

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