Rappler’s Glenda Gloria among Esquire Philippines’ Man at his Best 2025 awardees

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Rappler’s executive editor Glenda Gloria is named Journalist of the Year at Esquire Philippines’ Man at his Best 2025.   Full story: https://www.rappler.com/people/glenda-gloria-journalist-of-the-year-esquire-philippines-2025/

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00:00Rappler's executive editor Glenda Gloria is named Journalist of the Year at Esquire Philippines'

00:05Man at His Best 2025. Gloria became a journalist for the Philippine Daily Inquirer just one month

00:12before the 1986 EDSA people power revolution. In 2001, she co-founded the investigative magazine

00:18Newsbreak until it eventually became a part of Rappler, a digital news company she co-founded

00:23alongside 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Reza. She tells journalist Atom Araulio in an Esquire

00:29Philippines feature, the founder's personal vision was to create an independent newsroom.

00:34She adds quote, independent in all ways, in terms of its thinking, in terms of where its business is

00:39derived, and then to create the kind of journalism that really connects with the communities that it

00:44serves. At Rappler, Gloria leads a digital newsroom where journalists committed to truth compete with

00:49millions of social media content creators. Gloria tells young journalists quote, this is the best

00:55job in the world. It brings you to the corridors of power. It also mandates you to speak truth to power.

01:01You also have the mandate of the public to actually demolish that power if it does wrong.

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