Malaya
means "free" in the Filipino language. Founded in 1981 as a Tagalog
newspaper by Jose Burgos Jr., Malaya shifted to English when its sister
publication, We Forum, was closed down by the Marcos government in 1983 after
it came out with a story exposing the fake medals of former strongman.
During the politically Marcos troubled years of 1983 to 1986, Malaya was at the forefront of giving the public the truth.
The end of the Marcos regime in February 1986 brought changes to the ownership of Malaya. Burgos sold the newspaper to veteran journalist Amado "Jake " P. Macasaet, who was then Malaya's business editor.
Throughout all these changes, Malaya has adhered to its mission of giving the public the truth fairly and responsibly. The commitment continues.
We exclusively visited their office at Leyland Bldg, 20th cor. Railroad St. Port Area, Manila to have an interview to some of their editors, writers and columnists. We are very glad that they entertained our invitation to have insights to their office. They are very hospitable indeed knowing that we are students and just having our researches. There, we got our luck. We had interviewed the Executive Editor of the Manila Business Insights, Mr. Enrique Romualdez.
At his age of 85 years old, he is still a hard-working staff behind the Malaya. He is graduated from UP Diliman in 1950 with a degree of AB English. Writing is his passion that made him to take his second degree as scholar in North Western University where he took up Masteral Degree in Journalism.
His career on news writing was on Manila Times where he assigned to sports section. Then, he had also been a part of Daily Express. Until, he had started on Malaya in 1989.
Asked by what should be the driving force to pursue this field, he said “You should have a passion and experience on this”. He also counted that we should enjoy what we are doing.
His role as an Executive Editor is to ensure that the all writing works of his writers are in right before the publication. Something that ahead from Editor-in-Chief.
Unfortunately, he will get his retirement by next year.
We also asked what advices he can give to the aspiring journalist of this time; he said “If we have our passion, pursue it!” He also said that first thing on being a journalist is to enhance your English communication skills and keep reading to gather some vocabulary words to your knowledge bank.
During the politically Marcos troubled years of 1983 to 1986, Malaya was at the forefront of giving the public the truth.
The end of the Marcos regime in February 1986 brought changes to the ownership of Malaya. Burgos sold the newspaper to veteran journalist Amado "Jake " P. Macasaet, who was then Malaya's business editor.
Throughout all these changes, Malaya has adhered to its mission of giving the public the truth fairly and responsibly. The commitment continues.
We exclusively visited their office at Leyland Bldg, 20th cor. Railroad St. Port Area, Manila to have an interview to some of their editors, writers and columnists. We are very glad that they entertained our invitation to have insights to their office. They are very hospitable indeed knowing that we are students and just having our researches. There, we got our luck. We had interviewed the Executive Editor of the Manila Business Insights, Mr. Enrique Romualdez.
At his age of 85 years old, he is still a hard-working staff behind the Malaya. He is graduated from UP Diliman in 1950 with a degree of AB English. Writing is his passion that made him to take his second degree as scholar in North Western University where he took up Masteral Degree in Journalism.
His career on news writing was on Manila Times where he assigned to sports section. Then, he had also been a part of Daily Express. Until, he had started on Malaya in 1989.
Asked by what should be the driving force to pursue this field, he said “You should have a passion and experience on this”. He also counted that we should enjoy what we are doing.
His role as an Executive Editor is to ensure that the all writing works of his writers are in right before the publication. Something that ahead from Editor-in-Chief.
Unfortunately, he will get his retirement by next year.
We also asked what advices he can give to the aspiring journalist of this time; he said “If we have our passion, pursue it!” He also said that first thing on being a journalist is to enhance your English communication skills and keep reading to gather some vocabulary words to your knowledge bank.
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