Mindanao Times
Encyclopedia
Mindanao TIMES is the oldest newspaper in Mindanao
, southern part of the Philippines
. It was founded in 1946 with editorial & business office located at C. Bangoy cor. Palma Gil Sts., Davao City
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On January 2, 1946, a group of Filipinos headed by the late Atty. Guillermo E.Torres and Pedro M. Lat bought the weekly and renamed it Mindanao Times. In 1950 the Mindanao Times became a daily. In addition to the local news and features, the eight-column spread paper carried world news dispatched by the United Press international, feature articles, and comic strips from the King Features Syndicate, and national news gathered by the Philippine News Service.
However, the daily lasted for only about a year. A worldwide shortage of newsprint and other materials due to the Korean War and losses suffered by some news bureaus forced the Times to revert to a weekly. Shortly thereafter, Atty. Torres bought the newspaper from Mindanao Times Inc. and continued the publication of the newspaper under a new corporation known as Mindanao Publishers Inc. It went on as a thrice a week newspaper for years until it began its daily run on September 2, 1997. New sections were added for a wider scope of information. The sections include sports, entertainment, tourism, health, science and technology and lifestyle.
Carmelito Q. Francisco is the managing editor since 2003. He is a veteran reporter and has worked as editor in various local newspapers in the cities of Davao and General Santos. He also writes business stories for the national paper Business World.
Joel B. Escovilla is the newspaper’s associate editor. Used to be a correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
covering the business beat, he is a member of the MNICC. Escovilla participated in the Southeast Asean Press Alliance (SEAPA) Fellowship in summer of 2007 where he covered the Shan people in Chang Mai, Thailand.
Chris Fabian is the entertainment editor. His experience in covering various beats gives the Times the leverage in getting news sources. He is also the paper’s de-facto researcher.
Esperidion "Jon" Develos is the sports editor.
Mindanao
Mindanao is the second largest and easternmost island in the Philippines. It is also the name of one of the three island groups in the country, which consists of the island of Mindanao and smaller surrounding islands. The other two are Luzon and the Visayas. The island of Mindanao is called The...
, southern part of the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
. It was founded in 1946 with editorial & business office located at C. Bangoy cor. Palma Gil Sts., Davao City
Davao City
The City of Davao is the largest city in the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. Its international airport and seaports are among the busiest cargo hubs in the Philippines....
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History
Before the war, The publication was owned and published by the Japanese as Davao Times. After the liberation of Davao, the publication was assumed by the Philippine Civil Affair Unit (PICAU) No. 29, of the 24th Division of the U.S. Army.On January 2, 1946, a group of Filipinos headed by the late Atty. Guillermo E.Torres and Pedro M. Lat bought the weekly and renamed it Mindanao Times. In 1950 the Mindanao Times became a daily. In addition to the local news and features, the eight-column spread paper carried world news dispatched by the United Press international, feature articles, and comic strips from the King Features Syndicate, and national news gathered by the Philippine News Service.
However, the daily lasted for only about a year. A worldwide shortage of newsprint and other materials due to the Korean War and losses suffered by some news bureaus forced the Times to revert to a weekly. Shortly thereafter, Atty. Torres bought the newspaper from Mindanao Times Inc. and continued the publication of the newspaper under a new corporation known as Mindanao Publishers Inc. It went on as a thrice a week newspaper for years until it began its daily run on September 2, 1997. New sections were added for a wider scope of information. The sections include sports, entertainment, tourism, health, science and technology and lifestyle.
Staff
The Mindanao TIMES Editorial department is headed by Amalia Bandiola-Cabusao, who has been the editor in chief since June 2003. Previous to the post, she was managing editor of the paper. She is also the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Philippine Press Institute and the Mindanao Representative of this nationwide media organization and sits as member of the board of the Mindanao News and Information Cooperative Center (MNICC), a news organization she helped organize in 2001.Carmelito Q. Francisco is the managing editor since 2003. He is a veteran reporter and has worked as editor in various local newspapers in the cities of Davao and General Santos. He also writes business stories for the national paper Business World.
Joel B. Escovilla is the newspaper’s associate editor. Used to be a correspondent of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
Philippine Daily Inquirer
The Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as the Inquirer, is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, with a daily circulation of 260,000 copies. It is one of the Philippines' newspapers of record...
covering the business beat, he is a member of the MNICC. Escovilla participated in the Southeast Asean Press Alliance (SEAPA) Fellowship in summer of 2007 where he covered the Shan people in Chang Mai, Thailand.
Chris Fabian is the entertainment editor. His experience in covering various beats gives the Times the leverage in getting news sources. He is also the paper’s de-facto researcher.
Esperidion "Jon" Develos is the sports editor.
External links
- Mindanao TIMES - Official website