Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala

Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala is a Filipino broadcast journalist who produces news documentaries, best known for her work as a producer of Filipino-Australia co-produced documentary film Delikado by POV, which one of their staffs herself nominated the News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Documentary, making her the first Filipino to be nominated with this category.

Early life Magsanoc-Alikpala is the daughter of Philippine Daily Inquirer editor Letty Jimenez Magsanoc and Dr. Carlitos Magsanoc. Both of her brothers are doctors.

Journalism career Magsanoc-Alikpala was a managing director of Asianeye Productions as well as a producer for ARD German television and a contributing producer to CNN. She has produced and reported for documentaries through the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, The Probe Team and for SkyCable News.

Breast cancer and ICanServe In 1997, Magsanoc-Alikpala was diagnosed with breast cancer. along with her friend Crisann Celdran who wrote "we knew very little and had different experiences but shared one dream: that cancer survivors should not go through this path alone." She encourages women to make breast self-examination a "lifetime habit." One woman who survived breast cancer joined ICanServe afterwards, and she described Magsanoc-Alikpala as "pretty", "perky", and "talented" and wrote Magsanoc-Alikpala's efforts to organize fellow survivors was a "miracle". In 2004, Magsanoc-Alikpala was awarded the Bessie B. Legarda Memorial Foundation Award. The foundation had its tenth anniversary in 2007.

The organization, along with the Philippine Cancer Society, organizes a variety of initiatives to promote awareness, including "fun runs" since 2002 in such cities as Fort Bonifacio Global City in Taguig. It promotes awareness with local officials such as in Marikina. Its "Pink Kitchen" creative promotional effort, credited as the idea of Bettina Osmena, features top chefs serving fine cuisine; the events are well publicized in the media. One chef named a new dish after her; chef Sincioco’s Tickled Pink Salad a la Kara featured beetroots and a dark pink tinge in a "fuchsia concoction." In 2006, the organization planned the Philippine's first nationwide early breast cancer detection effort.

In addition, Magsanoc-Alikpala is the managing director of Manila-based Asianeye Productions The TV program is a competition-based reality program which gives a platform to independent documentary filmmakers.

In 2008, Magsanoc-Alikpala won a Balance Award from the magazine Working Mom which recognized balance between career and family; a reporter described Magsanoc-Alikpala's efforts as "indefatigable ... as chairperson of the breast cancer awareness support group."

Personal life

She lives and works in Manila.

Filmography Batas Militar (as executive producer; 1997) Limampung Taong Ligawan: The Pinoy TV Story (2003) The Assassination of Ninoy Aquino (2010) Marcos: The Downfall of the Dictator (2011) 11,103 (as producer; 2022) Delikado (2022)