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RODRIGO R. Duterte’s presidency has altered and controlled the public discourse so radically in its favor in ways rude and bold. One tragic result: it has restricted and narrowed…

RODRIGO R. Duterte’s presidency has altered and controlled the public discourse so radically in its favor in ways rude and bold. Its tragic result: it has restricted and narrowed…

FOR THOSE wanting to see an attempt to paint a nationwide picture of the drug war and all related efforts, this website may be up your alley. A platform mapping the location of…

THE PRESIDENT has made it well known that he is no fan of the press, but what about the Filipino public? Judging from the posts on PCIJ’s “Shout Out for Press Freedom” wall at the…

HE LASHES OUT at reporters and calls the false and misleading information that he dishes out as jokes or “traps.” Yet while his diatribes can be described as unbecoming of his…

GOT A DATE on Valentine’s Day? Or even, got time for friends in the next five nights? Allow us say thank you and let’s celebrate the week together in fun but thoughtful…

HARSH and with horrifying implications on the full and untrammeled exercise of press freedom. That is the least that could be said of the decision of the Securities and Exchange…

THERE is no dearth of hard lessons in Philippine procurement. The PEA-Amari and Textbook Scams in the 1990s, the Fertilizer Fund Scam and the botched NBN-ZTE and North Rail deals…

THE OPEN CONTRACTING Data Standard (OCDS) is an open data standard created by the Open Contracting Partnership for the publication of structured information in all stages of the…

(From Public Contracting in the Philippines: Breakthroughs and Barriers, a case study on the procurement of infrastructure projects by the Department of Public Works and Highways)…

WHAT DO some bankers and fund managers, a few senior government officials, a dozen top taxpayers, and a handful of companies located in the country have in common? They are among…

THE PRESS in the Philippines has been described to be among the freest in Asia if not in the world, robust, almost rambunctious in its practice. But in the first 16 months of the…

NO, JUANA, there has not been any big change in tactics in the government’s war against drugs just yet. By all indications, as well as the statements of President Rodrigo R…

COPS TO CITIZEN RATIO: BELOW PAR THE PHILIPPINE population has grown by leaps and bounds in the last three decades, and unfortunately, so has the country’s crime rate. More…

THE DATA PRIVACY ACT “is not meant to serve as a subterfuge to prevent the processing and/or disclosure of personal information sanctioned under law.” This, according to Chairman…

A CHIEF JUSTICE was impeached in 2012 for failure to declare the true and detailed list of condo units he owned, and pesos and dollars he had in banks. Ten years prior, a President…

MORE THAN a year after President Rodrigo R. Duterte signed the Freedom of Information executive order, a practice completely reverse of the policy has been creeping onto some…

TO REDACT or not to redact. Which could avoid or attract scrutiny and censure? Redactions are not the only issue that could arise if public officials would shade or black out the…

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Women in Especially Difficult CircumstancesChild Abuse (Female) Child Abuse (Male)Social Welfare Facilities THE MAGNA CARTA OF WOMEN, or Republic Act No. 9710 passed into law on…

The PCIJ Innovation in Storytelling Project KIAN Delos Santos’s dream was to become a policeman. (Illustration by Aldy C. Aguirre) THE FIRST PROJECT funded by The PCIJ Project for…