Sheila S. Coronel is winner of the 2003 Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and the Creative Communication Arts. She is also one of the founders of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. In 2006, she was named the inaugural director of The Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University’s School of Journalism. She was appointed its Dean of Academic Affairs in 2014.