Marites Dañguilan Vitug is a Filipina journalist and author who co-founded the news magazine ''

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''. She was a

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from 1986 to 1987.

Early life and education

Marites Dañguilan Vitug was raised by her parents to be a devout Catholic in Solano,

Nueva Vizcaya Nueva Vizcaya, officially the Province of Nueva Vizcaya ( ilo, Probinsia ti Nueva Vizcaya; gad, Probinsia na Nueva Vizcaya; Pangasinan: ''Luyag/Probinsia na Nueva Vizcaya''; tl, Lalawigan ng Nueva Vizcaya ), is a landlocked province in the ...

. Her mother was a member of the

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, while her father was a member of the

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. Vitug in her youth joined the Catholic Marian society called the

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. Vitug received her

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degree in broadcast communication at the

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Career

Vitug began her journalism career in the early 1980s, writing for the daily business newspaper ''Business Day'' (now ''

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''). Vitug cites the

assassination of Benigno Aquino Jr. Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., a former Philippine senator, was assassinated on Sunday, August 21, 1983, on the tarmac of Manila International Airport (now named Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor). A longtime political opponent of Pre ...

on August 21, 1983 as what prompted her to cover political issues and events such as insurgencies and protests, with the publisher of ''Business Day'' adding a political section to the paper. Vitug's first book, titled ''Power from the Forest: The Politics of Logging'', was published in 1993 by the

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. She founded with fellow journalist Glenda Gloria the weekly news magazine ''

'', with its first issue released on January 24, 2001. Vitug is currently the editor-at-large of the Filipino news site

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Bibliography

*Vitug, Marites Dañguilan (1993). ''Power from the Forest: The Politics of Logging''.

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. () *Vitug, Marites Dañguilan; Yabes, Criselda (1998). ''Jalan-Jalan: A Journey Through EAGA''.

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. () *Vitug, Marites Dañguilan; Gloria, Glenda M. (2000). ''Under the Crescent Moon: Rebellion in Mindanao''. Quezon City: Ateneo Center for Social Policy & Public Affairs. () *Vitug, Marites Dañguilan (2010). ''Shadow of Doubt: Probing the Supreme Court''. Quezon City: Public Trust Media Group. () *Vitug, Marites Dañguilan; Yabes, Criselda (2011). ''Our Rights, Our Victories: Landmark Cases in the Supreme Court''. Quezon City: Cleverheads Publishing. () *Vitug, Marites Dañguilan (2012). ''Hour Before Dawn: The Fall and Uncertain Rise of the Philippine Supreme Court''. Quezon City: Cleverheads Publishing. () * Almonte, Jose T.; Vitug, Marites Dañguilan (2015). ''Endless Journey: A Memoir''. Quezon City: Cleverheads Publishing. () *Vitug, Marites Dañguilan (2018). ''Rock Solid: How the Philippines Won Its Maritime Case Against China''. Quezon City:

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. ()

References

External links

2002 ''Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia'' interview2019 ''Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs'' interview
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