One-Minute Hirit 21: Isang Pagpupugay kay Amando Doronila, Magiting na M...

From Veteran newsman,author Amando Doronila; 95 By: Julie M. Aurelio, Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 9, 2023:

More than a decade ago, he already sensed the emerging challenges to newspapers from the internet.

“Newspapers today are flooded by social media stories from Facebook or Twitter which are hard to verify and authenticate,” said Doronila who served as chief editor of the Chronicle before it was shut down by Marcos and after Marcos was toppled.

“Cyberspace journalism gives us an oversupply of information from impressionable citizen journalists. And this Internet journalism poses a threat to the survival of the newspaper as a medium of information,” he said. 

Born on Feb. 6, 1928, in Dumangas, Iloilo, he began his career as a reporter and columnist for the Manila Bulletin and was a political columnist for the Daily Mirror from 1963 to 1972.

When Marcos imposed martial law in 1972, Doronila and other journalists like Luis Beltran and Maximo Soliven were arrested and detained.