Manuel Mogato
Manuel “Manny” Mogato is a Filipino Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for more than four decades.
Mogato was a general news correspondent for Reuters News for 15 years, covering disaster, conflict, diplomacy and local politics.
Currently, he is the defense and military editor of Cignal TV’s OneNews channel. He is also a columnist for the TV network News5 and the news and opinion platform PressOne.Ph and a lecturer on national security reporting at the Journalism program of the University of Santo Tomas.
He began his career as a crime/police beat reporter for the tabloid People’s Journal in the early 1980s before he moved to the revived Manila Times in 1985.
He was also the defense reporter and Malacañang Palace reporter for the defunct Manila Chronicle from 1986 to 1994, covering the most turbulent times in the country’s history under former President Corazon Aquino.
He had a brief stint as Manila reporter for the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, before returning to Manila Times as assistant news editor in 1997. He rejoined Asahi Shimbun after President Joseph Estrada shut down the Manila Times in 1999. In 2003, he moved to Reuters.
As a journalist, he was reporter of the year for Union of Catholic Asian News (UCAN) in 2000.
He was also recognized by the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) in Hong Kong for his coverage of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.
In 2017, he won the Jaime V. Ongpin Investigative Journalism and was named by the Canadian embassy as a Marshal McLuhan fellow.
The following year, he won the Roy Rowan Investigative Journalism award in the 79th American Overseas Press Club and the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
The Amnesty International in London also recognized his journalistic work in promoting human rights.
Mogato was also the US State Department’s International Visitors’ Program fellow in 1993, the Nihon Kyokai fellow in 1998, and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Asia-Pacific Journalist fellow in 2004.