CEBU CITY, Philippines — The late Alfredo Espinoza was a veteran journalist and a strong pillar in Cebu’s print media industry and to his family. Marcelina Espinoza-Guerra, the fifth of Espinoza’s 11 children, said she would always…
RICKY Poca emerged in the public eye in the mid-80s when he joined the struggle against the Marcos dictatorship. Together with his uncle, the late Cebu City councilor Clemente Rama, they helped the late Inday Nita Cortes…
While many aspiring journalists nationwide look to the capital to cover national events unfold, I did the opposite. I was already with a national news outlet and decided late 2015 that national news, listening to politicians repeat…
“Cite your sources.” High school and college teachers would repeat this over and over and over again to students writing essays or research papers until they get it right. But many elected officials in the Philippines, including…
If women journalists in the Philippines participated in the global campaign “A Day Without a Woman” for International Women’s Day this year, most newsrooms across the country would be very empty. Well, we do have a gender…
I tried to maintain a confident stance when I entered the Cebu Daily News building in the middle of an oppressive summer heat of 2006. I was one of the six Mass Communication students from the University…
The launching of Raymund Fernandez’s book “Kamingaw: An Impressionist Portrait of the Bisaya Painter Martino A. Abellana” last January 10, 2017 brought back memories of my interactions with Noy Tinong as we fondly called him from childhood…
Late last year, during a question and answer portion of a journalism workshop I was speaking at in a local university, a student had asked me bluntly if journalists today were “biased.” I answered just as bluntly,…
In this year’s 2016 Career Cast report, newspaper reporter had been ranked the worst job in the United States, a consistent ranking for the profession in the job site’s annual anticipated report. This is the 3rd time…
We are disappointed that Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña decided to “ban” from his office the City Hall reporter of Cebu Daily News, Jose Santino Bunachita, for no apparent reason other than saying “he (Santino) knows why.”…
The Cebu Citizens Press Council (CCPC) has passed a resolution requesting Mandaue City Mayor Luigi Quisumbing to lift a memorandum order that requires all interviews by the press to be directed and handled by the Mandaue City…
A JOURNALIST based in Ormoc City, Leyte has filed a string of complaints against the police chief of Albuera town for allegedly coddling a drug suspect connected to Eastern Visayas’ top drug personality Rolando “Kerwin” Espinosa Jr.…
