Abel Ulanday
John Nery
MANILA, Philippines–Inquirer editors Abel Ulanday and John Nery have been named to new positions at Inquirer.net, the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s online operation.
Starting Tuesday, Ulanday will serve as publisher and Nery as editor in chief of Inquirer.net, one of the country’s leading news and information websites.
Ulanday joined the Inquirer soon after it was launched in 1985 and rose through the ranks, from senior deskman to city editor to news editor and, in 1997, to associate editor.
He launched both Inquirer Libre and Inquirer Compact, and also served as the first editor of Inquirer.net when it was started in 1997. He was named editor in chief of Inquirer.net in 2009.
Nery, a columnist and an editor with the Opinion section, was first editor of the Inquirer’s i-Team and executive producer of InqTV.
A Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, he wrote “Revolutionary Spirit: Jose Rizal in Southeast Asia” on a visiting research fellowship from the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. He was the 2013 Jaime V. Ongpin Memorial Lecturer.
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