Tina Monzon-Palma

Tina Monzon-Palma
Born Ma. Cristina Mapa Monzon
(1951-03-29) 29 March 1951
Malate, Manila
Nationality Filipino
Alma mater St. Scholastica's College
Occupation
Years active c. 1968–present
Employer
  • DZMT (pre-1972)
  • DZHP (pre-1972)
  • NMPC (1972–1976)
  • GMA (1976–1992)
  • PTV (1986)
  • TV5 (1992–1997)
  • ABS-CBN (1997–present)
Spouse(s) Rene Palma
Children 3

Tina Monzon-Palma (born Maria Cristina Mapa Monzon[1] on March 29, 1951 in Manila[2]) is a Filipina broadcast journalist and anchorwoman.[3] She is best known as a late night news presenter in various Philippine television news programs in different television networks. She became GMA Network's first female news presenter[4] and pioneered the its Public Affairs department during her term as GMA News executive.[5][6] She later transferred to ABC-5 (eventually to been known as TV 5) to head its operations.[1] When she left ABC-5 after five years, she led ABS-CBN's public service campaign against child abuse under the network's Bantay Bata social welfare program.[1] Eventually, she became the anchor of ABS-CBN's late news program The World Tonight where she replaced Loren Legarda.[1]

Monzon-Palma has received several awards including University of the Philippines Gawad Plaridel in 2017.[7][8][9][10]

Early life

Tina Monzon-Palma was born Manila[2] to Andres Monzon and Priscilla Mapa and they lived in Malate disctrict of Manila.[1] She has five brothers and a sister.[1] She studied at Malate Catholic School for her elementary and high school education.[1] She went to college at Saint Scholastica's College and took up bachelor of arts in education.[1][11] She also cross-enrolled to De La Salle University for her other subjects.[1]

Career

Early radio and television programs

During her freshman years at Saint Scholastica's College, Monzon-Palma was already doing anchoring works for The Manila Times' radio station DZMT hosting the radio program Times Tower Revue.[1] She later transferred to another radio station, DZHP, and teamed up with other known broadcast journalists such as Bong Lapira and Jose Mari Velez.[1] Eventually, during Martial Law in the Philippines as declared by Ferdinand Marcos in the early 1970s, she became a weather news presenter and children's television show host at the government run television station, then named National Media Production Center.[4][1]

GMA Network and PTV-4

In 1976, she transferred to GMA Network to become its first female news presenter.[4] She first anchored News at Seven,[1] then The 11:30 Report[12] and later GMA Headline News.[13] During the events that led to the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution, and she is also the former hosts of the longest-running public service Kapwa Ko Mahal Ko She is left in 1977, Monzon-Palma was one of the personalities who went to Channel 4 (then named as Maharlika Broadcasting System), the Philippine government's television station that was then captured by forces linked to the People Power revolt.[1] After the People Power Revolution, then President Corazon Aquino assigned Monzon-Palma and Jose Mari Velez to manage Channel 4, which was renamed to People's Television Network (PTV-4).[1] After a few months stint at PTV-4, Monzon-Palma returned to GMA Network and she anchored GMA Network's late night news with Velez.[1] She eventually became the senior vice president for GMA News and Public Affairs[13][1][4] and pioneered its public affairs department.[5][6]

She left GMA Network in 1992 after a mistake she made during a news broadcast.[13] She erroneously reported in live television that Maureen Hultman, a shooting victim, already died but in fact, the said person was still in comatose.[13] Days after the incident, she did not go to work and she eventually resigned and took responsibility for the inaccurate report.[1] She also apologized to the Hultmans for the error she committed.[1]

TV5 and ABS-CBN

After one-month hiatus, she then moved to the reopened ABC-5 (later renamed to TV5) and became its chief operating officer.[1] As an executive In ABC-5, she was no longer involve in the daily news work routine but she did still present the late night news.[1] She stayed for five years on ABC-5 and then, took a break in the limelight in May 1997.[1] In October of that same year, she was tapped by Gina Lopez of ABS-CBN to become the program director of Bantay Bata 163, the public service campaign of ABS-CBN Foundation, Inc. (later to be known as ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation) against child abuse.[3]

When then The World Tonight news anchor Loren Legarda won a seat in the Philippine Senate, Monzon-Palma was asked by ABS-CBN to take Legarda's place.[1] She agreed while still doing her work at Bantay Bata. In 1999, when programs in English steadily came to an end on free television, The World Tonight was moved to ANC and Monzon-Palma continued to be its news presenter together with co-anchor Angelo Castro Jr.[1] Palma also the former host of Talkback, a current affairs television program branded as interactive.[14] She also do radio broadcast at ABS-CBN's AM radio station, DZMM, through her radio program Paksa, which discusses subjects such as women, labor rights, welfare of children, and the "militant poor".[15] She also took over Sagip Kapamilya as program director after handling Bantay Bata.[1][3] She later gave up her duties in Sagip Kapamilya but still continued her work as broadcast journalist in ABS-CBN.[1]

Other ventures

Aside from being a media practitioner and executive, she is also the director of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), a private non-profit and non-stock company.[15][16] During her early life as a news reporter, Palma was involved with civic organizations such as the Quezon City Red Cross and the Citizens Traffic Action.[3]

Personal life

Tina Monzon-Palma has been married to Rene Palma, a businessman.[1] They have three sons.[1]

Accolades

Her work as broadcast journalist garnered a number of awards from different bodies. In 2002, she received the Ka Doroy Broadcaster of the Year award that was given by the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas, a broadcast media organization, for her work as radio broadcaster at DZMM.[4] In 2008, she was granted a Lifetime Achievement Award that was bestowed by Gawad Tanglaw, an award-giving body from the academe.[4]

Saint Scholastica's Alumnae Foundation, Inc. recognized Monzon Palma as one of the 100 Outstanding Scholasticians[11][4] while Saint Scholastica's College gave the Hildegard Award in 2010.[4] In 2017, the Mass Communications College of the University of the Philippines has conferred her with the Gawad Plaridel for her professional integrity in her 40 years in the broadcast media.[17][18]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Rimban, Luz (August 24, 2017). "The prime of Ms. Tina Monzon Palma". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Tina Monzon- Palma". The Filipino Channel. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Paras-Sison, Carla and Christelle Belmonte. TINA Monzon-Palma: When People Need Your Help, Executive Feature, Lopez Link, ABS-CBN Corporate Communications, October 5, 2009
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Calero, JJ (May 18, 2013). "BusinessWorld - Tina Monzon Palma". www.bworldonline.com. BusinessWorld. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  5. 1 2 "20 years of GMA Public Affairs: The humble beginnings". GMA News Online. October 4, 2007. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  6. 1 2 Dimaculangan, Jocelyn (October 23, 2007). "GMA Public Affairs celebrates 20 years of public service on October 28". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  7. ↑ Pineda, Horacio C. (August 31, 2017). "Good journalism vs. fake news—Tina Monzon-Palma". University of the Philippines-Diliman. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  8. ↑ Domingo, Katrina (August 24, 2017). "Tina Monzon Palma: Crony press, fake news now on steroids". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Tina Monzon Palma is Gawad Plaridel awardee". malaya.com.ph. Malaya. June 2, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  10. ↑ Monzon-Palma, Tina (August 24, 2017). "FULL TEXT: Media's role in a post-truth age". Rappler. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  11. 1 2 "100 Outstanding Scholasticans - The thread of Scholastican inspiration". www.ssc.edu.ph. St. Scholastica's College. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  12. ↑ Vergel De Dios, Kelly B. (February 2, 2017). "Through the Looking-Glass: A news executive looks back at three decades with GMA". GMA News Online. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  13. 1 2 3 4 Anarcon, James Patrick (October 5, 2017). "15 TV news reporters with controversial network transfers". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  14. ↑ Talkback with Tina Palma, retrieved January 25, 2018
  15. 1 2 "Who's Who in Broadcast Journalism - Tina Monzon Palma". The Media Museum. Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  16. ↑ "ANC's Tina Monzon-Palma is 2017 UP Gawad Plaridel Awardee". CMFR. August 29, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  17. ↑ "ANC's Tina Monzon-Palma is Gawad Plaridel 2017 honoree". ABS-CBN News. May 19, 2017. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
  18. ↑ "Tina Monzon-Palma to young journos – "it is your turn"". University of the Philippines. September 7, 2017. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
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