AT least four broadcast reporters, two from dyBR and two from dyVL (Aksyon Radyo), died in the Nov. 8 typhoon. Eleven other media workers, including one reporter for the local paper and correspondent for BusinessWorld and a stringer for Rappler, were reported missing.
All were in Tacloban City and most of them were radio or TV reporters who were on duty when the typhoon struck. Other Leyte journalists survived, but like most other victims of Yolanda they also urgently need help.
“Our heart goes out to relatives of the dead and missing journalists as well as those who survived but are in dire want.”
“We don’t appeal for special attention to the media workers of Leyte. They or their kin must have received some of the aid from Cebu news organizations that initiated relief campaigns,” Pachico A. Seares, Executive Director of the Cebu Citizens-Press Council said in a press statement.