Tag: Mike Enriquez

The Risks I Took to Be a Reporter

My hands were shaking as I handed my resignation letter to my bosses. My thoughts were all incoherent as I explained why I was leaving GMA News. The only rational thing I remember telling them: I was a millennial seeking to explore the bigger world outside the newsroom. My bosses were shocked because I didn’t…

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Frustrations of a Photojournalist

When international football star David Beckham visited the Philippines with his team LA Galaxy, he had a clinic for kids before facing the Philippine Azkals. I was there. He called me Mr. Photographer. Beckham was an exception though. Everytime someone would call me a photographer, I would cringe. I hated the term. Let me count the…

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Reporter Notes: Year One

July 24, 2012. It has only been a month since I became a reporter. But I received an important assignment: the arrival of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from the hospital to her home in La Vista, Quezon City.  I waited in my position for hours. And then in a flash, the convoy of Congresswoman Arroyo…

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