Great tragedy was the backdrop of my first trip to Real, Infanta, and General Nakar in Quezon Province. In November 2004, hundreds of residents were killed in these towns, after typhoons Winnie and Yoyong caused landslides burying houses, buildings, and roads. Thousands of lumber from logging operations (many of which were allegedly from [...]
Here is another story, a special report about Boracay’s garbage problem. Let me be the first to clarify that the story is not intended to malign the reputation of what has been said to be the world’s best beach.
I’ve was doing my regular hard drive spring cleaning when I saw this story that we produced for Reporter’s Notebook in December 2006. Entitled Lason, it reports on the alleged effects of aerial spraying in the banana plantations of Davao del Norte.
What I remember aside from the story itself was taking the next flight [...]
(Note: Let me make this clear now: I was either just a mere possibility or just too young to remember any of the Philippine TV shows I am will mention in this post.)
No offense, GMA-7’s Master Showman/Walang Tulugan has never been my favorite show. Let’s just say that I’m not its target audience. Still, having worked in the [...]
Was doing some “Spring Cleaning” in my hard drive, and saw this story of mine in my recordings. It was one of the best edited stories of mine ever to air on Saksi, and took some amount of research before it aired in May 2007.
The story: just a month before the mid-term elections, Malacanang releases [...]
The item below was a letter I had written in 2002 as Chairperson of the UP Communicators for Good Governance, a student organization I chaired at the University of the Philippines Diliman. I was then a Senior at the UP College of Mass Communication. The letter was printed on the Philippine Daily Inquirer [...]
