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Why Jiggy Manicad Is Making a Return to News: 'I'm Serving a Higher Purpose Now'

The hardcore news reporter and anchor thought he’d left the journalist’s life behind when he resigned from GMA in 2018. But in a surprise announcement, he’s coming back to TV news reporting as an anchor for TV5’s primetime newscast. We sat down with Jiggy Manicad to talk about his career, his family, and what made him come out of retirement.

Rodrigo "Jiggy" Manicad Jr. is hitting the big five-oh next year, but even now it feels like he's someone who's already lived a dozen different lifetimes. The former TV news reporter and anchor of GMA Network is best known ...

Notes & Essays

A Note on the Philippines' First-Ever AI Sportscasters

GMA Network has introduced the country’s first-ever nonhuman TV presenters, and, expectedly, people have a lot to say.

After news spread that GMA Network was debuting the first-ever AI-generated sportscasters, my mind immediately went to something Malcolm Gladwell said about AI when he was here in Manila a few weeks ago. The author, public speaker, and thinker was ...

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