
Sheila Coronel
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Director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, @ColumbiaJourn professor. Tracks global investigative reporting.
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Joined June 2008
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!.
🌎 The 2025 Global Shining Light Awards (GSLA) honor watchdog journalism in developing or transitioning countries carried out under threat, or in perilous conditions. 🧵 Here are this year's seven finalists from large news outlets:
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RT @megec_unav: @ElenaHeBe, una de las profesoras del Máster, con @SheilaCoronel, en un evento del Observatorio de Medios e Información Res….
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RT @RegineCabato: "It takes a nation to hold a president to account. [Strongmen] project invincibility to convince people resistance is f….
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Journalists, lawyers, clergy, and human rights activists persisted in the Philippines, even when hope for accountability seemed nonexistent.
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RT @TekaTekaPod: "We cannot move forward until we realize we’re a traumatized society.” - @SheilaCoronel, on the cycle of violence & impuni….
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RT @karmanomad: Impunity is the norm for the powerful in the #Philippines. Duterte’s arrest is a fluke. Yet it would not have been possible….
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Journalists, lawyers, clergy, and human rights activists persisted in the Philippines, even when hope for accountability seemed nonexistent.
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RT @CJR: On the Arrest of an Autocrat:.Journalists, lawyers, clergy, and human rights activists persisted in the Philippines, even when hop….
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Journalists, lawyers, clergy, and human rights activists persisted in the Philippines, even when hope for accountability seemed nonexistent.
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“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.
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RT @MinkysHighjinks: “The point is to figure out: what do the autocrats care about, and how do we deprive them of that until they change?”….
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Latest from @columbiajourn Investigations: DAs Promised to Help Wrongfully Convicted New Yorkers. In Many Cases, They Made Things Worse. @nysfocus
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Our investigation identified dozens of cases in which a wrongful conviction unit denied someone's application, only for a judge to later exonerate them.
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RT @JamesSurowiecki: One of the great things the US government has done for many years is provide a massive trove of reliable, useful infor….
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RT @jaemark: My latest AI experiment adapting into video @SheilaCoronel's longform piece about a longtime hitman and Duterte's drug war. Al….
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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.
Part 1: 'In the beginning, I thought we were helping people by getting rid of the bad guys,' says Edgar Matobato. 'Later, we were told to kill innocent people.'
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RT @NicoleCurato: Just as a clandestine ecosystem of death squads is deeply embedded in the underbelly of society, so is a parallel world o….
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RT @araeugenio: ". just as a clandestine ecosystem of death squads is deeply embedded in the underbelly of society, so is a parallel world….
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IT IS A WONDER Edgar Matobato is still alive. A confessed assassin for the Davao Death Squad, he was the first to go public about the killings allegedly ordered by former President Rodrigo Duterte....
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RT @WhatAboutLizzy: "Individual redemption, as in Matobato’s case, is possible. But what will it take to redeem an entire nation?".
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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.
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IT IS A WONDER Edgar Matobato is still alive. A confessed assassin for the Davao Death Squad, he was the first to go public about the killings allegedly ordered by former President Rodrigo Duterte....
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