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Daily Tribune (Philippines)

Broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines


Summary

Broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines

FieldValue
nameDaily Tribune
logoDaily Tribune masthead.svg
logo_size230px
imageTribune frontpage 30 October 2018.jpg
image_size230px
captionFront page print edition on October 30, 2018
mottoWithout Fear, Without Favor
typeDaily newspaper
formatBroadsheet
publisherConcept and Information Group, Inc.
founded
( issues)
ownersConcept and Information Group, Inc.
political_positionCentre-right
headquartersMakati, Philippines
presidentWillie Fernandez
editorChito Lozada
website
managing_editorDinah Ventura
associate_editorManny Angeles
John Henry Dodson
languageEnglish
publishing_countryPhilippines

( issues) John Henry Dodson

The Daily Tribune is an English-language broadsheet publication in the Philippines. Its office is in the 3450 Concept Building, Florida Street, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines.

The Daily Tribune, as it was called then, was founded on February 1, 2000, by a group of journalists from the then-defunct The Philippine Post led by then-Editor-in-Chief and Founding Chairman Ninez Cacho-Olivares. On June 1, 2018, Concept and Information Group, publisher of the online Concept News Central, acquired the paper from Cacho-Olivares. With the change of hands, "The" from The Daily Tribune has been dropped.

History

On February 24, 2006, the Tribune was raided by the Philippine National Police at the height of the State of Emergency imposed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The police presence remained in the paper's office until the State of Emergency was lifted on March 4, 2006. The paper continued to publish normally, making defiant statements throughout. Ninez Cacho-Olivarez, the paper's publisher, claimed that some of her reporters were practising self-censorship, but her own publishing decisions were unaffected. She received substantial publicity and her circulation expanded significantly during the crisis; however, she lost many advertisers who were intimidated by the unstable political situation.

Libel suits

Judge Winlove Dumayas of Regional Trial Court Branch 59, Makati on June 5, 2008, found Cacho-Olivarez, publisher of The Daily Tribune, guilty of libel and sentenced her to a minimum of six months and a maximum of two years imprisonment. She was also ordered to pay 5 million (US$ 113,636) in moral damages and ₱33,732.25 in civil damages, including a libel fine of ₱4,000, for writing a June 23, 2003 column that accused then-Ombudsman Simeon V. Marcelo of colluding with the supposedly influential law firm, Villaraza, Cruz, Marcelo & Angangco in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 deal. Villaraza, Cruz, Marcelo & Angangco (colloquially known as 'The Firm') stated that it will prosecute 47 more libel suits against the publisher of The Daily Tribune.

On February 24, 2021, Ramon Suzara, the president of Philippine National Volleyball Federation, and former COO of the Philippine SEA Games Organizing Committee, sued 17 staffers of the paper, including its owner Willie Fernandez and managing editor Aldrin Cardona, for cyber libel.

On January 29, 2024, the Philippine Consul-General in Milan, Elmer Cato, sued Willie Fernandez and other employers and reporters of the paper for cyber libel for alleging that he had failed to assist overseas Filipino workers who had been victimized by a fraudulent business scheme.

References

References

  1. Dodson, John Henry. (June 1, 2018). "Daily Tribune under new management hits newsstands". Concept News Central.
  2. "Under Construction".
  3. "newsinfo.inquirer.net, Tribune publisher Olivarez guilty of libel".
  4. (2021-02-24). "Cayetano ally sues 17 Daily Tribune staff, officers over SEA Games reporting".
  5. "Envoy files raps vs newspaper over reports on Milan recruitment mess". ABS-CBN.
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