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Leveraging AI for IJ

OPENING PROGRAM AND PLENARY SESSION 1: Holding Power to Account Photos by Cindy Aquino for PCIJ

The party-list system was meant to challenge elite politics. But it has instead become a bastion of families and contractors. This report provides the numbers: half of the 64…

On February 7, Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a community journalist from Leyte, marks her sixth year in detention—an incarceration that rights and media groups strongly believe stems from…

Recto Bank, an underwater reef in the West Philippine Sea, remains an enigma. Little is publicly disclosed about it beyond its geology, oil and gas potential, and the decades-long…

In a low-income community in the Manila suburb of Fairview, a large rectangular structure is rising near a busy highway clogged with vehicles, commuters, and commerce. Few…

Ordinary Filipinos suffer the consequences of corrupt public works projects: months of displacement and a lifetime of trauma and grief. When the budget is deliberated behind closed…