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Postscript: How we covered the Ali-Frazier ‘Thrilla in Manila’
Front page of the Evening Express, Oct. 1, 1975. —IMAGE COURTESY OF RIZAL LIBRARY, ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY
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October 2, 2025October 2, 2025History

Postscript: How we covered the Ali-Frazier ‘Thrilla in Manila’

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(Last of three parts) In the predigital age of media, the printed word was king, and newspapers ruled. If an event wasn’t in the papers, it never happened.  In the mid-1970s, newsrooms were shifting from “hot metal” to “cold type”—from molten lead and oily typesetting machines to early computers, photo-typesetting, and paste-up. For many, that...

When ‘dinosaurs’ peopled the Inquirer, they made it No. 1
Inquirer editor in chief Letty Jimenez Magsanoc put her newspaper on the map. —COMPOSITE IMAGE/WAN-IFRA.ORG
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July 4, 2025July 4, 2025Media, Opinion

When ‘dinosaurs’ peopled the Inquirer, they made it No. 1

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A tempest in a teacup has been stirred by someone who attributed to “dinosaurs” the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s purported bumbling journey to digital. He appeared to be singing a dirge for it in a chest-thumping report that was run on June 30, timed for the next-day management transition of the No. 1 newspaper from its corporate...