Jove Francisco

Jovenal Mapalo Francisco Jr. is a Filipino broadcast journalist in the Philippines.

Career Among 17 other journalists from different international media organizations including CNN, Jove Francisco is the only Filipino reporter to be accepted as a fellow in the Journalist to Journalist (J2J) program of the AIDS Vaccine 2011 Journalist Training Program Fellows by the Washington-based National Press Foundation held recently in Bangkok.

He has been covering health and politics for 15 years, spanning four administrations from Ramos to Aquino. He was an anchor for TV5's late night newscast Pilipinas News and AksyonTV's Balitang 60.

His name was mentioned by then-Rep. Gilbert Remulla during the congressional investigation on the "Hello Garci" controversy for his TV reports.

On October 10, 2015, according to a Media Newser Philippines' report, Jove has transferred to ABS-CBN.

On April 25, 2018, Francisco joined Cignal TV's One News.

In October, Francisco was promoted as officer-in-charge of One News, replacing Patrick Paez who was named new head of News5.

Filmography

Television

Radio Year Title Character 2019–2023 Wag Po! Co-Host 2019–present Sa Totoo Lang Co-Host