Coronel, Sheila
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But instead she began writing for Philippine Panorama magazine. And when, in 1983, the assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr., cracked the edifice of Marcos?s power and the Philippine press stirred tentatively back to life, CORONEL says, "It became compelling to be a journalist." She never looked back.
In the mid-1980s, CORONEL covered the movement to bring Marcos down and emerged as one of the bright young chroniclers of the EDSA Revolution. Afterwards, she sealed her reputation at the Manila Chronicle with probing stories presented in flawless English. Her work appeared in the New York Times and The Guardian of England. Growing frustrated with the constraints of a conventional newsroom, in 1989 she and eight like-minded reporters founded the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ). CORONEL became executive director only by default, she says. Even so, except for one year, she has led the Center ever since.
Finding its stride under CORONEL, PCIJ plumbed the state of the nation. It probed attempts by military power-grabbers and their political allies to overthrow President Corazon Aquino
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