Rodney Jaleco

Rodney Jaleco joined the Philippine Star in 1987, first as a correspondent and later as a desk editor – of the arts & entertainment section – for the publication’s afternoon paper, the Evening Star.

He was later reassigned to help cover the defense beat for the flagship Philippine Star, in time to report about the series of failed military mutinies. He also worked as a stringer for the radio station dzRH and later served as president of the Defense Press Corps, one of the country’s oldest press guilds.

In 1994, Jaleco moved to ABS-CBN, then the country’s largest broadcast companies, to help man the assignments desk in the TV News & Current Affairs division.

In 2006, he immigrated to the United States where he worked as the Washington D.C. correspondent for The Filipino Channel, ABS-CBN’s overseas subsidiary.

At about the same time, he was recruited to help and later become editor of the Manila Mail, then the Metro DC’s longest-running Filipino American newspaper.

Jaleco currently works as a contractor at one of the US Commerce department’s line agencies even as he continues to contribute articles and online commentaries.

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