Director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, @ColumbiaJourn professor. Tracks global investigative reporting.
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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: twp.ai/4infLW
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@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 👉
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"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:
tinyurl.com/33ajwzpu
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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
cjr.org/world/duterte-arrest…
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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. cjr.org/world/duterte-arrest…
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Here we go
Trump says reporting by independent news outlets is biased and should be deemed to be against the law. "It has to be illegal, it’s influencing judges and it’s really changing law, and it just cannot be legal. I don’t believe it’s legal." @AlexGangitano thehill.com/homenews/adminis…
“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
A statement from Columbia Journalism School faculty defending press freedom: journalism.columbia.edu/news…
The vigilante president has been arrested. He didn’t believe in due process but he’ll want it now.
Breaking News: Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine ex-president, was arrested on an ICC warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity in his war on drugs. nyti.ms/4iGnW79
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“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: penguinrandomhouse.com/books… w/@SheilaCoronel
Latest from @columbiajourn Investigations: DAs Promised to Help Wrongfully Convicted New Yorkers. In Many Cases, They Made Things Worse. @nysfocus nysfocus.com/2025/02/13/wron…
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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.
The @uscensusbureau has taken down American Community Survey microdata.
Thankfully @nikhil_woodruff had a local copy, so we now store it on @ThePolicyEngine servers.
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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.
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.' rappler.com/newsbreak/in-dep…
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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
tinyurl.com/2xd5na4t
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"..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."
pcij.org/2025/01/17/the-maki…
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. pcij.org/2025/01/17/the-maki…
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"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. pcij.org/2025/01/17/the-maki…
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. pcij.org/2025/01/17/the-maki…