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7.4.06

First Filipino in Mass Media




Alex Tizon

Profile

1st Filipino-American Pulitzer Prize Winner for Investigative Reporting





Byron Acohido

Profile

1st Filipino-American Pulitzer Prize Winner, Beat Reporting (Seattle Times)

1997




Cheche Lazaro

Profile

1st Filipina President and Founder of The Probe Team, the 1st Filipino investigative newsmagazine in Philippine television

1987




Cheryl Diaz Meyer

Profile

1st Filipina-American Pulitzer Prize Winner for Breaking News Photography

2004




Elpidio Quirino

Profile

1st Filipino to appear on Philippine television





Emme Tomimbang

Profile

1st Filipina-American TV news anchor in Hawaii

1975




Isabelo delos Reyes

Profile

Founder and 1st Filipino Editor of the 1st vernacular newspaper in the Philippines, El llocano

1889




Jessica Soho

Profile

1st Filipina reporter to win the coveted George Foster Peabody Award

2000




Joaquin Henson

Profile

1st Filipino recipient of the first-ever Olympism Award from the Philippine Olympic Committee for excellence in journalism

2004




Miriam Defensor Santiago

Profile

1st Filipina Editor-in-Chief of the Philippine Collegian, a student newspaper in the University of the Philippines (U.P.)





Tommy Tomimbang

Profile

Founder of KISA, the 1st Filipino-language and 1st Filipino-owned radio station in Hawai'i

1973




Tony Velasquez

Profile

1st Filipino Cartoonist who published the 1st Filipino Comic Strip, Kenkoy

1929