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Chronicle's 36 Years in Community Journalism not a Walk in the Park
by: ELY P. DEJARESCO

Your humble community newspaper, the NEGROS CHRONICLE, has turned 36 last Friday, Independence Day, and with no fanfare, we just say, this paper’s past 35 years of dedicated service to community journalism was not exactly a walk in the park. If you are a true blue Dumagueteno, you will know what we mean. It is because, our readers and audience are a unique breed, much different form the audience of other cities and provinces. Indeed, we can say with all candor that Dumaguete community of readers is unique and we love Dumaguete for what it is.

As journalists, we tell you, if you only know how lucky we are to work with you here in Dumaguete. I was born in Bohol, finished my journalism and law studies in Dumaguete’s Silliman University. I started my journalism career in the defunct DYSR-AM, indeed, a legend in radio broadcasting in the Philippines. My late father, Atty. Jun Dejaresco,

is a true blue Negrense, born in La Libertad in 1920, fought in the last World War here, and escaped to Bohol as he was hunted by the Japanese kempitai. It was there where he met his lady love, Charing, married, produced ten siblings, and established the award-winning pioneer in community journalism in 1954, and three radio stations. It was there where we got our hard knox training, starting as a newboy in the streets of Tagbilaran, copy boy, news reporter, associate editor, to running our own humble media enterprise in this native land of my father in Negros Oriental. My late dad is a proud and outstanding alumnus-awardee of the Negros Oriental High School. His favorite classmate was the late senator Lorenzo Teves. This is the saga about the Bohol-Negros media connection.

It was one Freedom Day Celebration in the Martial Law year of 1973 that we came out with our maiden issue. It was a 12-page edition, and our newsboys hit the streets during the Freedom Day rites at the Quezon Park. The next edition was a four-page affair. And then it went back to six pages.

The significant part of our history as a newspaper is that Marcos has just closed down all media in Dumaguete, all radio stations, all newspapers, and in the entire country for that matter.

The newspapers then were the Negros Express, the Negros Examiner, a very vigilant media run by the late local greats like Bert Pontiniella and Procs Montesino. They too had their own printing presses, that is why they are independent. We also had smaller papers like the People of Mr. Artes, The Bomshell of Paking Arrieta, and third one I forgot the name. Jobless, I thought of going back to newspapering since I was working with DYSR, the defunct radio legend of Dumaguete City, inside Silliman campus. I was handling the oldest running public affairs program “Dumaguete Tonight,” now handled by Florence Baesa in our own radio station, the first FM station in Dumaguete City which opened in 1980.

We then published on letterpress process, almost the monotype method and by linotype. Most of our journalism students now would not know that process ever existed in Dumaguete. Everybody now is on desk top publishing where you can publish as many pages, and in any part of the world. The rise of technology is simply unbelievable.

The humble rise of the paper during the last 36 years was seen through its increase in its number of pages, from an average of eight pages in the 80s to 12 pages in the 90s, and from 16 to 20 pages in the millennium years. Thanks to our readers, advertisers and friends.

We not only circulate provincewide, regionwide, and in the NCR, but worldwide through the web. Modesty aside, we have recorded over 200,000 hits in our web page. Google is now advertising with us, and we have sold real estate thru the web with our associate editor Atty. Jay Dejaresco being himself (5th placer nationwide) a full fledge licensed real estate broker.

As we enter our 36th year of service to community journalism, we pledge our renewed commitment to serve the public with even much more vigor, vigilance and faith in the Almighty in that His Will be done through this informationministry. We shall endeavor to do our limited best in delivering the news and hearing your comments about public issues through the NEGROS CHRONICLE and STATION DYEM FM.


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