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| MAXIMO
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"The
youth of the land learned a lesson in civics and
citizenship from the barrel of the gun and the
tip of the bayonet that could never be picked
up in the classroom. I can only salute them with
admiration and wonder."
At
the age of 27, in 1960, Maximo Soliven was already
Publisher and Editor of the now-defunct The
Evening News, which rose in 1960 from sixth
to second highest in daily circulation in the
country.
Today
Soliven is publisher and Chairman of the Board
of Directors of The Philippine Star, and also
chairman, publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Eastgate
International, which publishes 'Mabuhay', the
in-flight magazine of Philippine Airlines.
He was the founding Publisher of the Philippine
Daily Inquirer. |
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"Meek
and cowed." These are qualities Soliven
believes should not belong to journalists who
are the messengers of truth to the people.
Many must agree with him as
he has been presented with many awards including
three 'Journalist of the Year' awards from the
National Press Club and later from the Manila
Rotary Club. He received the Catholic Mass Media
Award for Best Opinion Writer in 1985. He was
also given the OZANAM Award, the highest award
given by the Ateneo de Manila University, where
he graduated.
With his work as a correspondent taking him
around the globe, Soliven has received awards
from other countries. He was decorated in 1991
by French President Francois Mitterrand, as
chevalier (knight) of the National Order of
Merit of the French Republic. In 2000, Soliven
received one of Spain's most coveted decorations,
the 'Incomienda de la Orden Isabel la Catolica'
from His Majesty King Juan Carlos.
Soliven has a Masters degree in Communications
and Political Philosophy from Fordham University,
New York. He also took up graduate courses at
the School of Advanced International Studies
(SAIS) of the John Hopkins University in pursuit
of a Ph.D. and the Harvard School of International
Studies.
Sources:
Press Club Golden Jubilarians (B.S. thesis prepared
by students of Miriam College)
Biographical Sketch of Maximo V. Soliven |
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Spending
more than 12 years as a foreign correspondent,
Soliven has traveled to many places around the
world during times of trouble, putting his own
life at risk.
He has covered the Vietnam War,
including the 1968 "Tet" Offensive,
the "Gestapu" Coup in Indonesia in 1965
where almost half a million people were massacred,
the detonation of the first atom bomb in the People's
Republic of China where he also interviewed Premier
Zhon en lai on the matter. In 1968 he did a series
on the riots in Mexico City.
He has witnessed the fighting in Cambodia and
Laos, Southeast Asia in general, Japan, the Middle
East and Western Europe (from his bureau office
in Bonn, West Germany.) He has seen the hard times
and struggles of various nations, and once returning
to his homeland found himself a part of a new
struggle.
When the late President Marcos declared martial
law in 1972, Soliven was one of the first arrested
at 2 o'clock in the morning. He was subsequently
jailed by Ferdinand Marcos and assigned cellmate
of Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr., the opposition
leader. After his release, he was banned from
writing for seven years.
He described the press as "our last best
hope", for providing a breaking mechanism
against a bad government. He and seven others
followed this when they established The Philippine
Daily Inquirer, another leading newspaper, to
fight the Marcos dictatorship in 1985. |
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