Inquirer senior desk editor Guiller de Guzman writes 30

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine Daily Inquirer senior desk editor Guillermino de Guzman died on Saturday night, his family confirmed.

According to a Facebook post from De Guzman’s son Rodrigo early Sunday morning, the journalist died of acute respiratory distress syndrome, with severe pneumonia as an underlying cause, while undergoing treatment at the Manila Central University Hospital in Caloocan City.

He was 72 years old.

In a message to INQUIRER.net, Rodrigo revealed that his father was considered COVID-19 probable as his swab test results are yet to be released.  He added that the hospital informed him that the test results might be released on Monday at noon.

Several colleagues in the media industry have offered their condolences to De Guzman’s family, including Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin, who credited the late journalist as one of the “pioneers in real journalism.”

Locsin worked with De Guzman at the Globe and Today and at the Philippine Free Press.

“Guiller de Guzman was my colleague in the publishing business in GLOBE & TODAY, pioneerS in real journalism: elegant in the precision of facts and their presentation as news. He had a sharp and pitiless eye for grammatical howlers & idiomatic slips,” Locsin said in a tweet.

“I don’t know what to say except if I had any plans to write about the past I had a hand in, those plans went up in smoke with Guiller’s passing,” he added.

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