Dennis Fetalino (Photo from his Facebook page)
MANILA, Philippines — Veteran newsman and former National Press Club (NPC) director Dennis Fetalino died on Thursday, June 1, at the age of 62.
Up until his death, Fetalino was serving as an associate editor of People’s Journal, where he also wrote a regular column.
He had been a journalist since his student days at the University of the East where he edited The Dawn, considered until the mid-1980s as the biggest student newspaper in the country.
He became a reporter for Malaya at the height of the protest movement against martial law and through the years leading to the 1986 People Power Revolution. He later joined a number of newly founded newspapers post-Edsa, including the Herald Tribune, Philippine Star, and Business Star, before finding his niche with the Journal Group of Publications where he rose to become associate editor of People’s Journal.
Fetalino was elected director of the NPC for nine terms and was among the founders of the Economic Journalists Association of the Philippines.
He is survived by his wife Juliet, children Mario Jordan and Regine, brother Mario, sister Jena, and several nephews and nieces.
The wake is at Chapel 10, Heritage Park in Taguig City. Interment is on June 6.
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