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Bio-notes on Star columnist Dik Pascual With more than four decades of professional journalism behind him, Pascual also advises and writes for some foreign publications/clients and handles media seminars. Before joining the Star, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Philippine Daily INQUIRER. At some stage of his engagement, he served concurrently as President/CEO of the Inquirer corporation. While Inquirer chief editor, he also wrote Postscript, an opinion column he had carried over from the now defunct Daily EXPRESS where he was the Assistant Managing Editor. His main chore at the Express was closing the front page. On the side, he was a professorial lecturer in the UP College of Mass Communication. He was once Senior Media Specialist at the Ministry of Information and a director of the National Press Club of the Philippines for seven consecutive elective terms. Since December 2004, he has been president of the Capampangan in Media Inc. (CAMI), a non-profit association of professional Pampangueno journalists initially numbering 40. He was awarded in 1990 the Most Outstanding Capampangan in Media by the provincial government of Pampanga. In June 2005, he was appointed Director of the Institute of Mass Communication of the Angeles University Foundation in Angeles City. It is the only masscom school in Central Luzon. He was born March 3, 1940, in Mabalacat, Pampanga, just outside Clark Field, then the homebase of the US 13th Air Force. He graduated valedictorian from the Mabalacat Elementary School in 1952. After passing high school in 1956, as valedictorian, at the Holy Angel University in Angeles City, he enrolled for civil engineering at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. He ended up earning an AB English degree from the University of the East, Manila. He started his professional newspaper career in 1964 as diplomatic reporter of The Manila TIMES. He was covering the Senate and national politics when then President Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial rule and padlocked the Times in 1972. Upon the assassination of opposition leader Ninoy Aquino in 1983, he went on self-exile in the United States. There he published and edited The Filipino TIMES, a progressive weekly FilAm newspaper based in the San Francisco Bay Area. After the EDSA Revolt in 1986, he returned to Manila to become Editor-in-Chief of the Inquirer. (Note: Federico D. Pascual Jr. is NOT the Federico Pascual who was connected with the Government Service Insurance System, the Philippine National Bank and other firms and who has been mentioned in connection with some questioned transactions.) (POSTSCRIPT comes out in the Philippine STAR every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Its online edition is uploaded the night before at http://www.manilamail.com) Send REACTIONS to:
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Federico D. Pascual Jr. has been writing the column Postscript in the Philippine STAR since 1999. His subjects touch mostly on politics, business, foreign relations and front page issues.