Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc is the Inquirer’s 2015 Filipino of the Year, chosen in a poll conducted by the Inquirer among more than 50 editors from across its multimedia platforms.
WITH her gift for words and nose for news, Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc, known as LJM at the Inquirer, helped oust a dictator and shape a nation’s future.
Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc was not just a keeper of the Edsa flame. She was a keeper, too, of the flame of the dreams of young aspiring
She was unafraid to shake up the front page by putting out lifestyle, culture and human interest stories side by side
with that day’s serving of political circus and crime
She appreciated reporters who made an effort to look good on the beat. ‘Best dressed,’ she called me once
I first heard about LJM from my father Rafael, who worked at the Inquirer as desk editor from 1991 to 2004. On one of his
Something’s burning,” she intoned in her distinct husky drawl, her reading glasses propped on the tip of her nose, as she sniffed. This was in
The President of the Philippines came, but “Dionne Warwick,” “Tina Turner,” “Madonna,” “Axl Rose” and “Kuya Germs” stole the show.
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