#CourageON: Because of you, we pushed a ‘boring’ topic into the mainstream

#CourageON: Because of you, we pushed a ‘boring’ topic into the mainstream

Who would have thought that we Filipinos would be ending 2025 with procurement irregularities and corruption as mainstream issues? That would have been hard to imagine just a few months ago. In Bangkok last year, when I attended a procurement reporting seminar of Journalists Against Corruption, a network of Southeast Asian media practitioners, speakers would sometimes joke that procurement was anything but a sexy beat.  That no longer seems to b…