Raiza Javier

by Feli Recto

As a journalist in high school, Raiza Javier only saw journalism as she experienced it.

Being the EIC of her school newspaper, limited to covering school events and the like, as well as joining press conferences as a copyeditor and headline…

Nica Cruz

by Erwin Colcol

During her high school days, 19-year-old Nicole Agatha Cruz was known among her classmates as the girl who would become a journalist someday.

Alyanna Chio

by Angelle Braganza

Unlike the others, Alyanna never imagined to be a journalist. Ever since she was a child, she has been a classically trained musician — playing pieces by Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff, among others. At six, she started to read notes and at eight…

by Alyanna Chio

Bryan Ezra C. Gonzales is currently a third year journalism student at the University of the Philippines Diliman. A very nationalistic student, his greatest passions include political science and history. For Bryan, his greatest achievement is “conquering my past and family background to become a youth…

Path Roxas

by Anna Biala

She has always been in love.

At a young age, Pathricia Roxas, or simply Path, fell in love with writing journalistic pieces — by being exposed to journalism press conferences in elementary — and she has never stopped since.

Arvin Sicat

by Gemma Esteban

“Kung hindi mo sisimulan sa sarili mo ang pagiging kritikal sa mga bagay-bagay, sino pa ang tutulong sa’yo?”

(If you will not start being critical yourself, who’s going to help you?)

Angelle Braganza

by Maverick Russel Flores

Logic. Reason. Analysis.

People seldom cite such technical terms as pillars of their personality. Journalists, too, are able to go from heaps of data and highfalutin discourse to heart-wrenching human interest stories.

Denise Valdez

by John Remil Isaga

Not all students are blessed to get into the University of the Philippines, but a mere acceptance letter does not the end uncertainties. Not all are placed in the right course, whether by wrong choices or unavoidable circumstances. Sometimes, people just…

Dash Lagrimas

by Russel Calidguid

She openly says that she always has a sense of disappointment towards her works and that perhaps cramming is in her nature as a writer. But this is not how Nicole-Anne Lagrimas got her nickname “Dash.”

Pam Castro

by Maisie Joven

She lets out a sigh of relief after hours of shooting and reshooting a scene for her five-minute documentary. No matter how hard it is, she reminds herself that these five minutes can change lives.