SHEILA S. CORONEL is academic dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She is concurrently also director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and Stabile professor of professional practice. She began her reporting career in the Philippines, and in 1989, cofounded the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism to promote investigative reporting on major social issues, including the military, poverty, and corruption. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including Coups, Cults & Cannibals, The Rule-makers: How the Wealthy and Well-Born Dominate Congress, and Pork and other Perks: Corruption and Governance in the Philippines
| 18:20 - 19:30 | Ball Room : First Plenary: Investigating Corruption under Censorship Keynote speaker: Sheila CoronelAn award-winning Investigative journalist, author and editor, Sheila Coronel was one of the most tenacious reporters in the Philippines transition from dictatorship to democracy. In 2006, she moved to New York to be the director of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism in Columbia University. The petite, soft-spoken Coronel began her reporting career in 1982 -- four years before the fall of the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. ModeratorsSpeakers
SHEILA S. CORONELSHEILA S. CORONEL is academic dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. She is concurrently also director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism and Stabile professor of professional practice. She began her reporting career in the Philippines, and in 1989, cofounded the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism to promote investigative reporting on major social issues, including the military, poverty, and corruption. She is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including Coups, Cults & Cannibals, The Rule-makers: How the Wealthy and Well-Born Dominate Congress, and Pork and other Perks: Corruption and Governance in the Philippines |
