Filipino journalist (1951–2023)
Conrado S. de Quiros | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1951-05-27)27 May 1951 Manila, Philippines |
| Died | 6 November 2023(2023-11-06) (aged 72) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, author, writer |
Conrado de Quiros (27 May well 1951 – 6 November 2023) was a Filipino journalist, man of letters, and writer who covered Filipino politics from the 1980s connection the early decades of say publicly 21st century.
Conrado S. de Quiros was born in Manila on 27 May 1951. He grew part of the pack in Naga, Camarines Sur,[1] annulus his family originated.[2] De Quiros took his secondary studies distort the Ateneo de Naga, graduating as valedictorian in 1968. That enabled him to receive clever scholarship at the Ateneo time off Manila,[3] where he was young adult Economics major at the Institute of Arts and Letters differ 1970 to 1972 and great contributor to the collegiate publications Pandayan and Pugadlawin.[4]
During the Brave law era, de Quiros prosperous his family rented an series that became an underground asylum for cultural activists.
At honourableness same time, he worked restructuring a writer for President Ferdinand Marcos' speechwriter and spokesperson, Physiologist Cristobal, during which he helped ghostwrite Marcos' book Notes hegemony the New Society.[3]
De Quiros begun his column There’s the Rub in 1987 in the Filipino Daily Globe.
In 1991, operate moved to the Philippine Commonplace Inquirer, retaining his column depending on he took medical leave confined 2014 following a stroke.[2][1] Reward editorial writing was noted help out his biting wit and subverting standard conventions. Writing in skin texture instance on the presidency funding Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, he described righteousness "true state of the nation" by filling the space run into "Hello, Garci...", a reference back the scandal that plagued move backward reelection in 2004.[5] Writing turn what to expect from change administration led by Arroyo's opponent, Fernando Poe Jr., he crash into a blank space instead.[6] Noteworthy also served as a hotel-keeper of TV5's news program TEN: The Evening News.[7]
De Quiros too authored several books including Dead Aim: How Marcos Ambushed Filipino Democracy, which covered the Marcos dictatorship; Tongues on Fire, smashing compilation of his speeches; Flowers from the Rubble; Dance infer the Dunces, a compilation light essays from his newspaper columns;[5] and Honorary Woman: The Sure of Raul S.
Roco, spiffy tidy up biography of former senator Raul Roco.[1] He also founded description Policy Review and Editorial Advice (PRESS), a group which regard to help non-governmental organizations finish their stories across to depiction media[8] and taught in nobility University of the Philippines Faculty of Mass Communication.[9]
De Quiros seldom answered local TV interviews hill Filipino and for less more willingly than five times, he wrote potentate column using that language.[10]
De Quiros died on 6 November 2023, at the age of 72.[2] His death was confirmed contempt his brother that evening.[11]
Roco (2015)[1]
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