A UST Journalism instructor and Pulitzer Prize winner is set to publish a book on his four-decade career as a journalist in October this year.
Manuel Mogato is preparing to launch his memoir titled “It’s me, Bok! Journeys in Journalism,” which highlights his experience as a seasoned reporter who covered several beats, including politics, crime and defense.
The self-published book is scheduled for release this Oct. 5, Mogato told The Flame.
The journalism instructor graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications in 1983 and is pursuing his master’s degree in Communications Management at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila.
Mogato joined the UST Journalism department in 2021 and has handled courses on Philippine politics and media and society. He also taught journalism courses in his alma mater for more than 16 years.
Mogato began his journalism career in 1984 as a police and crime reporter for the People’s Journal. From 1997 to 1999, he was assistant news editor of the Manila Times.
He worked as a political and general news correspondent for Reuters Manila for 16 years.
When he was with Reuters, he co-wrote the Pulitzer prize-winning investigative report, “Duterte’s War: Inside the bloody drug crackdown in the Philippines” with Clare Baldwin and Andrew Marshall. The series of reports tackled the “brutal killing campaign” behind former president Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war.
Mogato, the fifth Filipino to win the international prize, was also recognized by the Amnesty International Media Awards for the same series.
Throughout his journalism career, Mogato covered several historic events in the country, including the ouster of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. during the 1986 People Power Revolution, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 and the siege of Marawi by Islamist terrorists.
He works as defense and diplomacy editor of One News and editor-at-large of PressONE.ph and News5 Digital.
Mogato is also a recipient of the Roy Rowan Award for best investigative reporting at the American Overseas Press Club in 2018, Marshall McLuhan Fellowship in 2017 and best reporter for Union of Catholic Asian News in 2000. F
