It was that love she showed throughout my wife’s ordeal that made me ask her to write the introduction for my book, “88 Days In India, A Pilgrimage of Faith, Hope & Love.”
And now it begins—the realization that Letty (Jimenez-Magsanoc) has passed away.
Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc was not just a keeper of the Edsa flame. She was a keeper, too, of the flame of...
A SECRET FAIRY GODMOTHER By Ruth Navarra-Mayo Editor, Junior Inquirer “More of that. My apo liked it,” she would...
Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc was an icon of democracy and press freedom, the INQUIRER’s editor in chief for 24 years, and my...
It is my college graduation in the summer of 2012. Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc, editor in chief of the Inquirer, hands...
My earliest memory of working under LJM was when I overheard her admonish someone for spelling Hong Kong as “Hongkong.” “Two...
There was an unspoken belief in the Inquirer newsroom that editor in chief Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc was immortal or invincible—that she would...
It was Christmas Eve, just a couple of hours before midnight. I was on the floor surrounded by freshly bought presents,...
I’ve forgotten how many times I’ve cried in Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc's office while she shuffled back and forth between summoning the copyboys and holding my hand.