Tina Monzon-Palma

In this Philippine name for married women, the birth middle name or maternal family name is Mapa, the birth surname or paternal family name is Monzón, and the marital name is Palma.

Tina Monzon-Palma
Born
María Cristina Mapa Monzón

(1951-03-29) March 29, 1951 (age 73)
Malate, Manila, Philippines
NationalityFilipino
Alma materSt. Scholastica's College, Manila (BA)
Occupations
Years activec. 1968–present
Employers
  • DZMT (pre-1972)
  • DZHP (pre-1972)
  • NMPC (1972–1976)
  • GMA (1976–1986; 1986–1992)
  • PTV (1986)
  • ABC (1992–1997)
  • ABS-CBN (1997–present)
SpouseRene Palma
Children3

María Cristina "Tina" Mapa Monzón-Palma[1] (Tagalog: [ˈtinɐ ˈmɔnsɔn ˈpɐlma]; born March 29, 1951)[2] is a Filipina broadcast journalist and anchorwoman.[3] She is best known as a late night news presenter in various Philippine television news programs in different television networks. She became GMA Network's first female news presenter[4] and pioneered its Public Affairs department during her term as GMA News executive.[5][6] She later transferred to ABC 5 (now TV5) to head its operations.[1] When she left the company after five years, she led ABS-CBN's public service campaign against child abuse under the network's Bantay Bata social welfare program.[1] Eventually, she became the anchor of ABS-CBN's late-night news program The World Tonight where she replaced Loren Legarda.[1]

Monzón-Palma has received several awards including University of the Philippines Gawad Plaridel in 2017.[7][8][9][10]

Early life

Tina Monzón-Palma was born as María Cristina Mapa Monzón in Manila[2] to Andres Monzón and Priscilla Mapa and they lived in Malate district of Manila.[1] She has five brothers and a sister.[1] She studied at Malate Catholic School for her elementary and high school education.[1] She went to college at Saint Scholastica's College and took up Bachelor of Arts in education.[1][11] She also cross-enrolled to De La Salle College for her other subjects.[1]

Career

Early radio and television programs

During her freshman years at Saint Scholastica's College, Monzón-Palma was already doing anchoring works for The Manila Times' radio station DZMT hosting the radio program Times Tower Revue.[1] She later transferred to another radio station, DZHP, and teamed up with other known broadcast journalists such as Bong Lapira and José Mari U. Vélez.[1] Eventually, during Martial Law in the Philippines as declared by Ferdinand Marcos in the early 1970s, she became a weather news presenter and children's television show host at the government run television station, then named National Media Production Center.[4][1]

GMA Network and PTV 4

In 1976, she transferred to GMA Network to become its first female news presenter at age 25.[4] She first anchored News at Seven,[1] then The 11:30 Report[12] and later GMA Headline News.[13] She was also one of the former hosts of the longest-running public service program Kapwa Ko Mahal Ko, which she left the program a year later. Monzón-Palma was one of the personalities who went to Channel 4 (then named as Maharlika Broadcasting System), the Philippine government's television station that was then captured by forces linked to the People Power Revolution.[1] After the People Power Revolution, then President Corazon Aquino assigned Monzón-Palma and José Mari Vélez to manage Channel 4, which was renamed to People's Television Network (PTV 4).[1] After a few months, she returned to GMA and anchored the late night news with Velez.[1] She eventually became the senior vice president for GMA News and Public Affairs[13][1][4] and pioneered its public affairs department.[5][6]

Monzón-Palma left GMA Network in 1992 after a mistake she made during a news broadcast.[13] She erroneously reported in live television that Maureen Hultman, a shooting victim, already died but in fact, Hultman was still in a comatose state.[13] Days after the incident, she did not go to work and she eventually resigned, taking responsibility for the inaccurate report.[1] She also apologized to the Hultmans for the error she committed.[1]

ABC and ABS-CBN

After one-month hiatus, Monzón-Palma moved to the reopened ABC 5 (later renamed to TV5, now 5) and became its chief operating officer.[1] As its executive, she was no longer involved in the daily newsroom routine but she still presented The Big News with Eric Eloriaga and later joined by Kathy Tanco Ong as her co-anchors.[1] She stayed for five years on ABC-5 and then, took a break in the limelight in May 1997.[1] In October of that same year, she was tapped by Gina Lopez of ABS-CBN to become the program director of Bantay Bata 163, the public service campaign of ABS-CBN Foundation, Inc. (later to be known as ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation) against child abuse.[3]

When then The World Tonight news anchor Loren Legarda decided to run for a seat in the Philippine Senate, Monzón-Palma was asked by ABS-CBN to take Legarda's place.[1] She agreed while still doing her work at Bantay Bata. In 1999, when most programs in English steadily came to an end on free television, The World Tonight was moved to Sarimanok News Network, now ABS-CBN News Channel, and Monzón-Palma continued to be its news presenter together with co-anchor Angelo Castro Jr.[1] Monzón-Palma also hosted Talkback, a current affairs television program.[14] She also did radio at ABS-CBN's AM radio station, DZMM, through her radio program Paksa, which discusses subjects such as women, labor rights, welfare of children, and the "militant poor".[15] She became program director of Sagip Kapamilya after handling Bantay Bata.[1][3] She would later gave up her duties in Sagip Kapamilya but still continued her work as broadcast journalist in ABS-CBN.[1]

Other ventures

Aside from being a media practitioner and executive, she is also the director of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), a private non-profit and non-stock company.[15][16] During her early life as a news reporter, Monzon-Palma was involved with civic organizations such as the Quezon City Red Cross and the Citizens Traffic Action.[3]

Personal life

She is married to Rene Palma, a businessman.[1] They have three sons.[1]

Filmography

Television

Year Title Role Network
1976 Kapwa Ko Mahal Ko Host GMA Network
1976–1982 News at Seven Anchor
1982–1986 The 11:30 Report
1986–1992 GMA Headline News
1992–1997 The Big News ABC
1998–2017
2018–2021		 The World Tonight ABS-CBN
ANC
Kapamilya Channel
2000–2017 Talkback Host ANC
2006–2007 TV Patrol World Lingkod Kapamilya Segment anchor ABS-CBN
2010–2013 Krusada Host
2019 It's Showtime Judge, Magpasikat 2019
2021–2023 Tina Monzon-Palma Reports Anchor ANC

Accolades

Her work as broadcast journalist garnered a number of awards from different bodies. In 2002, she received the Ka Doroy Broadcaster of the Year award that was given by the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas, a broadcast media organization, for her work as radio broadcaster at DZMM.[4] In 2008, she was granted a Lifetime Achievement Award that was bestowed by Gawad Tanglaw, an award-giving body from the academe.[4]

Saint Scholastica's Alumnae Foundation, Inc. recognized Monzon Palma as one of the 100 Outstanding Scholasticians[11][4] while Saint Scholastica's College gave the Hildegard Award in 2010.[4] In 2017, the Mass Communications College of the University of the Philippines has conferred her with the Gawad Plaridel for her professional integrity in her 40 years in the broadcast media.[17][18]

External links

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab Rimban, Luz (August 24, 2017). "The prime of Ms. Tina Monzon Palma". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Tina Monzon- Palma". The Filipino Channel. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d Paras-Sison, Carla and Christelle Belmonte. TINA Monzon-Palma: When People Need Your Help, Executive Feature, Lopez Link, ABS-CBN Corporate Communications, October 5, 2009
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Calero, JJ (May 18, 2013). "BusinessWorld - Tina Monzon Palma". www.bworldonline.com. BusinessWorld. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  5. ^ a b "20 years of GMA Public Affairs: The humble beginnings". GMA News Online. October 4, 2007. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  6. ^ a b Dimaculangan, Jocelyn (October 23, 2007). "GMA Public Affairs celebrates 20 years of public service on October 28". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  7. ^ Pineda, Horacio C. (August 31, 2017). "Good journalism vs. fake news—Tina Monzon-Palma". University of the Philippines-Diliman. Retrieved January 18, 2017.
  8. ^ Domingo, Katrina (August 24, 2017). "Tina Monzon Palma: Crony press, fake news now on steroids". ABS-CBN News. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  9. ^ "Tina Monzon Palma is Gawad Plaridel awardee". malaya.com.ph. Malaya. June 2, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  10. ^ Monzon-Palma, Tina (August 24, 2017). "FULL TEXT: Media's role in a post-truth age". Rappler. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  11. ^ a b "100 Outstanding Scholasticans - The thread of Scholastican inspiration". www.ssc.edu.ph. St. Scholastica's College. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  12. ^ Vergel De Dios, Kelly B. (February 2, 2017). "Through the Looking-Glass: A news executive looks back at three decades with GMA". GMA News Online. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  13. ^ a b c d Anarcon, James Patrick (October 5, 2017). "15 TV news reporters with controversial network transfers". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
  14. ^ Talkback with Tina Palma, retrieved January 25, 2018
  15. ^ a b "Who's Who in Broadcast Journalism - Tina Monzon Palma". The Media Museum. Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  16. ^ "ANC's Tina Monzon-Palma is 2017 UP Gawad Plaridel Awardee". CMFR. August 29, 2017. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  17. ^ "ANC's Tina Monzon-Palma is Gawad Plaridel 2017 honoree". ABS-CBN News. May 19, 2017. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
  18. ^ "Tina Monzon-Palma to young journos – "it is your turn"". University of the Philippines. September 7, 2017. Retrieved January 30, 2018.