MANILA, Philippines — Veteran journalist Muriel “Twink” Macaraig died at age 55 on Tuesday after years of battling cancer, according to News5.
In a Facebook post, News5 said Macaraig, one of their television anchors and a columnist of the Philippine Star, has succumbed to cancer.
Colleagues in the media industry and other personalities also expressed their sympathies with Macaraig’s passing.
Farewell, @twinkmac, valiant journalist! Even in illness, she refused to succumb to despair, using her time and talent as a critic of human rights violations, corruption and, abuse. We feel the loss badly. https://t.co/Be3e1m3yvC
— inday espina varona (@indayevarona) January 14, 2020
you fought the good fight @twinkmac https://t.co/xIBcO1GHly
— Pilo Hilbay (@fthilbay) January 14, 2020
RIP @twinkmac I will always remember you for your courage.
— Ces Oreña-Drilon (@cesdrilon) January 14, 2020
You’re in a better place now, @twinkmac. Rest peacefully.
— Theodore Te (@TedTe) January 14, 2020
Macaraig wrote her last column for the Philippine Star on April 28, 2019.
Macaraig served as a part-time member of the faculty of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication.
She was also a former vice president of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP).
She was one of the six children of Catalino Macaraig Jr., who served as executive secretary of President Corazon Aquino, and Araceli Villareal Andaya.
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