Heads of media firms funded by US govt through AID and State Department: clockwise, from top left, Coronel (ex-PCIJ), de Jesus, Ressa and Tordesillas.
It was the official public website of the federal agency, the US Agency for International Development (AID), that contained the data that the PCIJ and CMFR have been getting US taxpayers’ money for over 10 years since 2009, with Vera Files and Rappler starting to get such money in the past two years.