COMING SOON: The PCIJ obtained Securities and Exchange Commission records of over 20 flood-control project contractors. We will upload them tomorrow and add more in the coming weeks. Stay tuned to our social media pages and website ( https://t.co/uu4JnPHEEC)!

I've chaired the Global Shining Light Awards jury for many years, but was particularly impressed with the quality and ambition of this year's finalists, especially at time when watchdog journalism is under siege. Congratulations to the finalists!

@ElenaHeBe, una de las profesoras del Máster, con @SheilaCoronel, en un evento del Observatorio de Medios e Información Responsable que no os podéis perder el próximo martes 29 en @CaixaForum. #Management4Creatives #confianza #medios Os podéis apuntar 👉 https://t.co/h2lzj8NK26

"It takes a nation to hold a president to account... [Strongmen] project invincibility to convince people resistance is futile... They perform omnipotence so convincingly that only when they fall do we see how brittle their power truly was."—@SheilaCoronel

"We cannot move forward until we realize we’re a traumatized society.” - @SheilaCoronel, on the cycle of violence & impunity in the Philippines. Listen to our episode on Edgar Matobato’s testimony on the drug war: https://t.co/QeZLHjaBUG

Impunity is the norm for the powerful in the #Philippines. Duterte’s arrest is a fluke. Yet it would not have been possible without years of difficult, dangerous, painstaking work.. even when hope for accountability seemed nonexistent. - @SheilaCoronel https://t.co/qmSmLHacDk

On the Arrest of an Autocrat: Journalists, lawyers, clergy, and human rights activists persisted in the Philippines, even when hope for accountability seemed nonexistent. By @SheilaCoronel.

Here we go

“All who believe in these freedoms should steadfastly oppose the intimidation, harassment, and detention of individuals on the basis of their speech or their journalism.” Statement from @columbiajourn

The vigilante president has been arrested. He didn’t believe in due process but he’ll want it now.

“The point is to figure out: what do the autocrats care about, and how do we deprive them of that until they change?” —@KenRoth speaking @Columbia J-school on new book 📕 Righting Wrongs, about 3+decades battling abusive governments: https://t.co/xs9PlBOvPX w/@SheilaCoronel

Latest from @columbiajourn Investigations: DAs Promised to Help Wrongfully Convicted New Yorkers. In Many Cases, They Made Things Worse. @nysfocus

One of the great things the US government has done for many years is provide a massive trove of reliable, useful information about the US economy that's publicly and freely accessible to anyone who wants to use it. Taking this stuff offline is an absolutely grotesque thing to do.

My latest AI experiment adapting into video @SheilaCoronel's longform piece about a longtime hitman and Duterte's drug war. All images, animations, voices, and music were created using Gen AI.

Thought for the eve of MLK Day

Is redemption possible for a death squad assassin who said he has killed so many he has lost count? Thanks, @rapplerdotcom for running my story on Edgar Matobato.

Just as a clandestine ecosystem of death squads is deeply embedded in the underbelly of society, so is a parallel world of resistance—connected, rooted, and quietly defying the brokenness that surrounds them. The Making of Edgar Matobato @SheilaCoronel https://t.co/KCkLmsbP8N

"..just as a clandestine ecosystem of death squads is deeply embedded in the underbelly of society, so is a parallel world of resistance—connected, rooted, and quietly defying the brokenness that surrounds them." https://t.co/27YEyo6422

"Individual redemption, as in Matobato’s case, is possible. But what will it take to redeem an entire nation?"

I interviewed death squad assassin Edgardo Matobato in 2016. This is the story of how Catholic clergy, military mutineers and a former president helped keep him alive so he could tell his truth.