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LET’S leave behind, for now, the debate on whether or not Maria Ressa deserved the Nobel. It’s time to focus on an indispensable aspect of newsgathering, one that has its abundant share of heroes, often unsung, but heroes just the same: photojournalism. The weekend saw the death of yet another…
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), through its Office of the Public and Cultural Diplomacy (OPCD) has conveyed its "deepest condolences" to the family and friends of veteran photojournalist Recto Mercene who passed away on Saturday, Oct. 2.
(Photo from Recto Mercene Facebook page) Mercene
RECTO L. MERCENE, veteran photojournalist who covered aviation, defense, Malacanang, Senate and foreign affairs, and who “shot” Ninoy Aquino as he lay at the tarmac on August 21, 1983, has died, his family announced. The BusinessMirror reporter had been in hospital since September 7, and was being prepared for release…
Photo from Recto Mercene's Facebook page MANILA - Veteran photojournalist and reporter Recto Mercene passed away on October 2, his family announced. He was 77. Mercene had been admitted to the Asian Hospital in Alabang since September 7 after suffering a fall. According to an obituary posted by his publication, BusinessMirror, he was being prepared for release from confinement so he can get palliative care at home after doctors detected cancer spreading in his bone marrow. He died peacefully in his sleep at 3 p.m. on Saturday. "The man who spent nearly six decades soaring and roaming, in various incarnations of a traveler - first, as private pilot and air traffic controller, then as aviation reporter and photojournalist, and then as diplomatic and foreign affairs reporter - has gone on to the sky with no limits, where air traffic needs no controls and airplanes never have to take off or land," BusinessMirror editor-in-chief Lourdes Fernandez penned in Mercene's obitua