Anna Karmina Balderrama Constantino-Torres (born February 14, 1975) is a Filipina television

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who

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'' on

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(ANC) during weekdays. Formerly she was a co-host of ''

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'' on

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and a temporary replacement for the co-hosting chair in ''

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''. Constantino and fellow news anchor Tony Velasquez were the interviewers who represented

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in '' PiliPinas Forum 2022'', the multi-network interview series produced in partnership with the Philippine Commission on Elections that covered the candidates of the

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. Velasquez and Constantino are also co-hosting partners in

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and

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's ''Isyu Spotted'', formerly branded as ''On the Spot''. In 2022, Constantino was awarded a Jaime V. Ongpin Journalism Fellowship and a Marshall McLuhan Fellowship. Known for her hard-hitting questions, Constantino went viral on

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in 2022 when she rebuffed presidential candidate Jose Montemayor Jr.'s insinuation that ANC accepted money from another presidential candidate, quipping, "I'm sorry, I’m not going to let that pass, Dr. Montemayor. We are not in the business of getting paid. I am personally insulted by this insinuation. We can go on with this interview, we can leave this topic and move on but let me tell you, this is not an insinuation that I will take lightly. This company is not in the business of getting paid. This journalist you are talking to right now has never been or ever will be paid by anyone to ask or not ask any questions." On a

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interview, Constantino said that the media's role and responsibility in relation to disinformation is to "push back by seeking the truth always and retelling the same". On the day of the death of former Philippine President

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, Constantino posted on

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photos of her and the former President that were taken during her 2015 interview with him. In that interview, Constantino said the former President "offered his apologies to my father and our family. . . . To many, they experienced his presidency. To me, I experienced his humanity."

Early life and career

Constantino is the granddaughter of nationalist and historian

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, niece of activist and musician

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, daughter of nationalist activist Renato "RC" Constantino Jr., and cousin of fellow journalist

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. Constantino studied film at the

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, but after graduation applied for a post at the now-defunct

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instead of a film outfit in Makati, the news outlet being just five minutes away from her family's house. At Sky News she opted for the production assistant's job instead of the

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's job that was offered to her by then-

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head David Celdran. Within a year at the news outlet she was already writing and producing special reports, retaining this job until the media outlet's merger with Sarimanok News Network that created ANC. During an ANC news anchor's sick leave, Constantino was offered to chair the anchor's post as temporary replacement.

Personal life

Constantino survived a

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in 2015. She is married with four children.

References

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