SHEILA CORONEL

Sheila's Coup Part 3

We begin Part 3 with excerpts from PCIJ's latest venture, the PCIJ Podcasts. Then Sheila Coronel talks about her decision to form PCIJ and her vision for the 16-year-old organization. And find out what the busiest investigative reporter in the country does for fun when she's not blogging, podcasting and exposing cases of corruption and abuse of power.

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SHEILA CORONEL

Sheila's Coup Part 2

Journalist Sheila Coronel talks about the PCIJ blog's audience and shares her insights into the current political crisis in the Philippines.

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SHEILA CORONEL

Sheila's Coup

As perhaps the best journalist to emerge from the martial law era, Sheila Coronel has covered every major political upheaval in the Philippines since the early 1980s. Her stories about the final years of the Marcos regime and the uncertainty that followed the fall of the dictatorship were published in 1993 in a collection titled "Coups, Cults & Cannibals" and she has written for major international publications, including the New York Times. In 1989, she made what seemed like an odd career choice. She helped form a non-profit organization, one with a long name that didn't exactly sound sexy: the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism.

But her decision to start PCIJ turned out to be a journalistic coup. PCIJ, which has exposed many of the major political scandals in the Philippines over the past 15 years, is now considered a critical media institution in the country. In 2003, Sheila was honored with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for her groundbreaking work in Philippine journalism.

In Part 1 of a 3-part podcast, Coronel talks about PCIJ's latest success: the creation of the PCIJ blog which has become one of the most popular Philippine Websites.

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