CORRUPTION WATCH
This Year, We Decide Whether Floods Keep Killing
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…
By Guinevere Latoza·January 5, 2026
First Person
How to vote on May 12: ‘We have a chance to break the grip of political clans’
What if all the candidates belong to dynasties? What if those dynasties are unopposed? PCIJ researcher Guinevere Latoza, a youth voter, asks reform advocates to weigh in on these…
By Guinevere Latoza·May 10, 2025
First Person
Unfinished project: Portraits, stories of women fighting for divorce in the Philippines
It could have been the first documentary photography exhibition on the controversial issue of divorce. I did not know it at the time, but the silent power of the Catholic Church on…
By Rick Rocamora·March 31, 2025
CAMPAIGN FINANCE
PCIJ computation shows big discounts needed to keep billions in ads within campaign spending limits
Two candidates aired ads worth more or less P2 billion from January to December last year. Campaign finance laws do not cover these expenses, however. Spending limits only take…
By Carmela Fonbuena·February 12, 2025
First Person
I kept my copy of President Nemenzo’s version of the U.P. Pledge of Loyalty
Francisco “Dodong” Nemenzo was president of the University of the Philippines in 2003 when I graduated from the university with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. During the…
By Carmela Fonbuena·December 24, 2024
Congress
A day after my UP graduation, I faced Congress to fight for campus press freedom bill
I recall a student publication that was forced to solicit money because they couldn’t access their own funds amounting to almost P300,000. I remember my editor’s face bannered in a…
By Guinevere Latoza·August 15, 2024
