Manuel Mogato is a Filipino

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-winning journalist and the editor-at-large of independent news websit
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Concurrently, he serves as the defense editor of One News, a television news channel under Cignal TV.

Career

Graduating from the

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in 1983, Mogato began his journalistic career as a crime, military, and political reporter for local newspapers. He was the graveyard shift police reporter for People's Journal Tonight and later for the revived Manila Ties under Chino Roces until April 1986. He then covered the defense and military beats for the defunct Manila Chronicle during the turbulent years of Corazon "Cory" Aquino government. Meanwhile, he also served as assistant news editor for the Manila Times under the ownership of the Gokongweis for ten years up to 1999, until the newspaper temporarily ceased its operations due to political pressure from the government of Joseph Estrada. He had also worked for the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun for a total of seven years covering politics, security, and diplomacy before he moved to Reuters in 2003. He reported on the downfall of dictator

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and the

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in 1986, the successful bid for the presidency of

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in 1992, numerous failed coups from the late 1980s until early 2000s, and the ouster of

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in 2001, among other important news. Also he wrote about disasters and humanitarian crises including the Luzon earthquake in 1990 and the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991. Reporting for

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as a political and general news Manila-based correspondent since 2003, Mogato has traveled across

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covering

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and

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Summits, the occupation of Marawi by pro-Islamic militants,

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, regional pandemics, and other topics. In addition to being a journalist, he started teaching basic newswriting and editorial writing at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila as a part-time lecturer in 2011. In 2019, Mogato left Reuters to become the defense and diplomacy editor at cable TV news channel, Cignal TV's One News. He also hosted the radio program, Wag Po!'', until March 2023, with a television simulcast on

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Awards

Mogarto's journalistic work has been recognized with a number of international awards. Accolades he has received include the Human Rights Press Award; a

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fellowship; and two awards from the London-based

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. His work was also noted by the Overseas Press Club in 1979, the

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in 2013, the

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, and the

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. Mogato, alongside two other Reuters journalists

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and Andrew Marshall, won a

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in 2018. They were recognized for " xposingthe brutal killing campaign behind Philippines President

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’s war on drugs." Mogato is the second Manila-based Filipino journalist and the seventh Filipino to win a Pulitzer. Former president

congratulated Mogato with a formal letter.

References

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