Category: Journalism

[2009] Lopez family: Sale of Meralco stake ‘a business decision’

This was among the few times the Lopez family members admitted publicly the pain and rift behind-the-scenes in the deals involving Meralco, the business power company in the country they once controlled. This was published in 2009 on the news sites of ABS-CBN and Newsbreak, both of which are now dead links. Reposting the story’s…
[2008] The inside story: How San Miguel worked its way into Meralco’s board

NOTE: This was a story I wrote piecing together the inner workings of a business deal announced to a shocked Manila business community in 2008. From various interviews, I learned how Ramon Ang’s weekend visit to Cebu to charm Winston Garcia of state pension fund GSIS resulted in last minute changes on who the Lopez…
The INQUIRER story

This Inquirer story is about leadership and the messy business of letting go.
Out-of-the-box style for a documentary film

We had the sun and surf on one side, and the verdant mountain on the other
OMG, I’m a ‘film producer!

I have crossed over — or dipped my foot — to a whole new way of storytelling that’s far from my text-based or article-heavy journalism usual.
How a documentary captured the humanity of John Gokongwei Jr.

My decades of business journalism have taught me how straightforward, risk-averse, fact-based business people are when they are in front of a camera. How did we make Gokongwei Jr’s humanity shine in a documentary?
John Gokongwei: A multimedia biography project | Documentary premiere

The documentary answered the question: What did the late tycoon John Gokongwei Jr, the subject of my biography project, leave behind?
The day Philippines became the most dangerous place on the planet to be a journalist

A snapshot of what it was like in a newsroom on November 23, 2009, the day of the #AmpatuanMassacre
The full story of why I yoga

When I’m not writing or managing newsrooms, I am on a yoga mat. I’m sharing here my parallel journeys as a journalist and as someone who process my human frailties…while I practice yoga.