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  • 7/15/2025
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. picks former journalist and veteran public relations practitioner Dave Gomez as new communications secretary. He is the fifth comms chief in Marcos’ three years in office.

Full story: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/marcos-appoints-dave-gomez-communications-secretary/

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00:00President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. picks former journalist and veteran public relations practitioner
00:06Dave Gomez as new communications secretary. This for the fifth time in just three years in office.
00:14Gomez started as a reporter for the Philippine Star and later joined
00:17Leoburnet, then became the director general of the Philippine Information Agency.
00:22He is the latest in the long list of communications chiefs under the Marcos administration.
00:27Jay Ruiz, who briefly served as acting head of the presidential communications office,
00:33held the role for just over four months before being reassigned. Ruiz's time in the role was
00:38still longer than that of Marcos' first communications head, vlogger Trixie Cruz-Angelis,
00:44who stepped down within the first three months of the administration.
00:48Cesar Chavez, the third PCO chief, served for just over six months.

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