Panay News founder Danny Fajardo, one of the pillars of journalism in Western Visayas, has died. He was 72.
Fajardo, who served as this paper’s editor-in-chief for years, passed away last night at the Asian Hospital and Medical Center in Alabang, Muntinlupa City.
He founded Panay News in 1981 to further expand the frontiers of press freedom in the region and hosted the popular Iloilo radio and cable television public affairs program Reklamo Publiko.
Fajardo headed the Iloilo Press Club – the oldest press club in the country – for several terms and served, too, as executive vice president of the Publishers’ Association of the Philippines.
Just this Sunday, Sept. 9, the Municipality of Mina, Iloilo honored Fajardo as one of its outstanding sons in the field of Business and Entrepreneurship.
Fajardo also served as Chief Executive Officer of the National Book Development Board; Commissioner of the Commission on Filipino Language; and Director, Media Division, Commission on Culture and the Arts.
He was also a Philippine media delegate to the United Nations’ 50th Anniversary.
Fajardo was an alumnus of Silliman University, Dumaguete City where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Political Science.
He also took a special course on Para Legal Studies at the Manila Times School of Journalism./PN
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Details on the interment will be announced later.
Fajardo, who served as this paper’s editor-in-chief for years, passed away last night at the Asian Hospital and Medical Center in Alabang, Muntinlupa City.
He founded Panay News in 1981 to further expand the frontiers of press freedom in the region and hosted the popular Iloilo radio and cable television public affairs program Reklamo Publiko.
Fajardo headed the Iloilo Press Club – the oldest press club in the country – for several terms and served, too, as executive vice president of the Publishers’ Association of the Philippines.
Just this Sunday, Sept. 9, the Municipality of Mina, Iloilo honored Fajardo as one of its outstanding sons in the field of Business and Entrepreneurship.
Fajardo also served as Chief Executive Officer of the National Book Development Board; Commissioner of the Commission on Filipino Language; and Director, Media Division, Commission on Culture and the Arts.
He was also a Philippine media delegate to the United Nations’ 50th Anniversary.
Fajardo was an alumnus of Silliman University, Dumaguete City where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Political Science.
He also took a special course on Para Legal Studies at the Manila Times School of Journalism./PN
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Details on the interment will be announced later.
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