Author: Pinky Concha Colmenares

Before social media, people went to Manila Bulletin to seek resolution to a problem, medical assistance, publicityStrangers sending help to buy a motorized fishing boat for a fisherman who had lost everything to super typhoon Yolanda in 2013, which left him with nothing to take care of three children, two of them with special needs. …

To this day, 42 years since I joined Manila Bulletin, I still say, “No day is the same for a journalist.” You start a day with coffee and plans to have dinner with family, but that does not always happen.  The weather, a politically-charged statement, or an accident changes the course of a journalist’s day. Oftentimes …