Category: Videocasts

SULYAP: The real tools of the trade

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EVERY REPORTER knows about the usual tools of the trade. In the old days, these were ballpens and notebooks, and maybe a working telephone if you’re lucky. These days, reporters lug around laptops and tablets, using wireless broadband internet (look Ma, no cables!).

But those are just implements. In the end, the carpenter uses his mind and his imagination more than he uses a chisel and hammer.

To help nurture a culture for investigative reporting, the PCIJ creates its own set of tools, by publishing books, manuals, and other training elements on investigative reporting. Today’s Sulyap was produced and edited by PCIJ Multimedia Producer Cong B. Corrales.


 

 

SULYAP: Protecting our world

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ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTAGE has always been a point of pride for the PCIJ. After the Center was established in 1989, one of the first things that PCIJ Executive Director Sheila Coronel did was to establish an Environment Desk. It was a message powerful in its simplicity: Long before it became a trend, PCIJ had already made a commitment to environmental reporting.

The reason was simple: In the end, much of our lives are interconnected by and to the environment we live in. History, culture, politics, religion – many of these elements in our lives are rooted in the physical world we find ourselves in. And in dealing with the issues that color our world, we come across all sorts of characters – heroes, prophets, liars and thieves, and ordinary people in an extraordinary world.

Photos, text, and editing by PCIJ Multimedia Producer Julius D. Mariveles.


 

Sulyap: Remember the typewriter?

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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS, nine veteran journalists established the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. Much has changed since 1989, in the realm of politics, the economy, society – and technology as well.

Indeed, the way we do journalism has changed. From ballpens and small notebooks, many journalists now use laptops and digital recorders. Analog cameras have given way to high definition cameras. The cassette tape has also gone the same way of the eight-track player.

Yet while so much has changed, so much remains the same. The principles of good journalism have stood the test of time – accuracy, fairness and balance, attention to detail, and the mission to tell the story in the most compelling manner.

Today’s Sulyap, or video short, is a look back at how the technology of journalism has changed in the last two and a half decades. This video short was produced and edited by PCIJ multimedia producer Cong B. Corrales.


 

Sulyap: Katutubo

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IN 2002, the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism trekked to the mountains of Nueva Vizcaya and dove into the seas off Palawan in order to tell the oft-unheard stories of indigenous peoples.

The result was Katutubo: Memories of Dances, a multi-format effort of the PCIJ that included a full length documentary and a coffee table book. Katutubo not only chronicled the hardships and despair of IP communities, but also celebrated their bravery and victories in the face of what many of us call development.

This short video was produced and edited by PCIJ multimedia producer Julius D. Mariveles.

Sulyap: Toxic Sunset

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WHEN NINE senior journalists banded together to form the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism in 1989, none of them imagined that their baby would ever go beyond the boundaries of print. After all, print media was their common root.

Four years later, the PCIJ would break new ground with the production of a full-length documentary on the legacy of almost a century of American military presence in the Philippines.

The documentary “Toxic Sunset” was produced and released by the PCIJ in 1993, just a year after the last American troops pulled out of Subic and Clark airbase. The documentary details the toxic legacy that the Americans left behind after the abrogation of the US bases treaty. Today’s Sulyap was edited and produced by Julius D. Mariveles of the PCIJ Multimedia Desk.