Ads worth more than P4 billion have already aired on TV and radio stations across the Philippines even before candidates filed their certificates of candidacy (CoCs) in October 2024. Close to a ...

As early as January last year, Sen. Imee Marcos already aired 271 TV and radio ad spots worth P21 million, based on published rate cards or before discounts. Every month since then, the presidential ...

Workplaces are required to secure permits and undergo inspections before they can legally operate. For instance, a restaurant cannot open to the public without clearance for fire safety, sanitation, ...

The Philippines entered the election period for the May 2025 elections on Sunday, January 12. We at the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism are putting a spotlight on campaign finance. Data ...

Supporters and critics of the postponement of the polls in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), as well as neutral analysts, are in agreement. Malacañang and the senators ...

Las Piñas Rep. Camille Villar topped ad spending on Facebook, the most popular social media platform in the Philippines, the year before the May 2025 polls. She spent P13 million to boost her posts ...

Rain showers greeted Renato Ibañez and other Indigenous leaders when they gathered in Manila in mid-September to halt the controversial Kaliwa Dam in dense forests east of Manila. Ibañez lives in ...

In October 2024, in an attempt to halt the construction of Kaliwa Dam, around 140 anti-dam people including Indigenous leaders wearing loin cloths mobilized at the Quezon provincial capitol, some 129 ...

The Commission on Elections en banc on January 9 approved a list of election hotspots in the May 2025 midterm elections. Thirty-eight towns and cities — placed under the red category — have grave ...

Eleven popular news, entertainment, and sports personalities could fill the 24-member Philippine Senate after the May 2025 elections — an unprecedented number in the history of Philippine politics.

Thank you for your continued support of the work of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. We believe that investigative long-form journalism has positive outcomes for democracy. As ...

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 graduation ceremony that ...