Filipina Sheila Coronel: Columbia U’s top journalist
Amidst the 1983 turmoil that was Ninoy Aquino’s assassination, a budding reporter for the Philippine Panorama began to be heard. Her name: Sheila Coronel, investigative reporter.
An award-winning investigative journalist Sheila Coronel was co-founder of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, the first of its kind as leash from the Marcos rule began to break in the early 1980’s. Under her leadership, the Center became established as the premier investigative reporting institution in the Philippines and Asia.
She was named as one of Asiaweek’s 50 Great Communicators, the 2003 Ramon Magsaysay Award for journalism, and recently named as director of the newly established Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at the Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
According to David Klatell, Vice Dean Professor of Professional Practice and member of the search committee, Coronel was highly recommended by colleagues from the National Security Archive, an independent non-governmental research institute and library at the George Washington University in Washington DC.
“If you want to meet someone who is not only a fabulous journalist,” Klatell recalling NSA’s remark about Coronel, “but an incredible personality and someone who students and faculty college would love, you have to go meet Sheila Coronel.”
Says Ms. Coronel in her acceptance speech:
“I look forward to sharing with my students the techniques and ethos of watchdog journalism in the hope that they will do great reporting in the investigative tradition.”
She’s one of our own. A true Filipina who shines not just in her own country but elsewhere, to make a difference with what has been given her.
[Source: PhilippineNews.com; Photo: Columbia University]
Tags: investigative journalism, Sheila Coronel, Philippines, Ramon Magsaysay Award
3 Comments
I have a lot of admiration for her !
She’s GREAT…very talented person like her father.
You make us all proud, Sheila.
Your stories exposed a corrupt President and triggered events that led to his downfall. It brought him shame and, consequently, embarrassment to the country as well for electing a shameless leader. But you reported the truth. For that, you should be commended and admired. Your appointment as Director at one of the leading J-schools in America evokes further admiration. Keep it up.