Category: journalism
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Convict Cake: Bilibid’s Nameless Bakeshop and the Inmates Who Run It
Originally published on Marci 6, 2014 on Pepper. Words by me, photos and text editing with additional reporting by Lars Roxas. Photo editing by Mylene Chung. It started with a joke. At least, I thought it was a joke. I was late for a good friend’s party. I had missed the singing of the birthday…
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Chronicles of a Freshie Journalist: Ethics, Coverage, and a Prayer
Pay Per Publish An acquaintance, T, asked me for press contacts to send press releases to, and said that each print of PR subject would entitle the writer to P5000. As someone who got her foot in the industry through PR writing, I was unsettled with the idea. I wondered if it was just personal:…
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Chronicles of a Freshie Journalist: Putting “Un” with Fashionable
What to do when you’re covering an event that you’re awfully under-dressed for? I remember what an old editor once advised, “I don’t trust a journalist that’s well-dressed! It shows that he has time to care for how he looks!” I’ve learned to look put-together for the business beat ever since I got sent to…
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Chronicles of a Freshie Journalist: Putting "Un" with Fashionable
What to do when you’re covering an event that you’re awfully under-dressed for? I remember what an old editor once advised, “I don’t trust a journalist that’s well-dressed! It shows that he has time to care for how he looks!” I’ve learned to look put-together for the business beat ever since I got sent to…