Joseph Ubalde or Mark Joseph H. Ubalde (8 January 1986 – 1 April 2019) was a Filipino online journalist and web trainer.

Biography

He used to be the weather presenter for TV5's morning show, ''

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'', as well as '' Andar ng mga Balita'', ''Aksyon News Alerts'', and ''Balitang 60''. He also headed News5 Everywhere as its content manager from 2013–2016 and was responsible for increasing its visibility online. He won two online journalism awards for his articles on absentee mothers and overseas Filipinos. Before working for TV5, he was a Senior News Producer for GMANewsTV and briefly worked for VERA Files under his former teachers from the University of the Philippines - Diliman. He was discovered dead in the bathroom of his hotel room in

Bonifacio Global City Bonifacio Global City, also known as BGC, Global City, or The Fort, is a 240-hectare mixed-use estate and central business district located in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, Philippines. It is the home of the Philippine Stock Exchange, the national ...

on April 1, 2019. He had been battling depression, having been clinically diagnosed with it in 2016. He also made a video about the condition one evening in late March, before his death.

References

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