Manuel Mogato

Manuel Mogato is a Filipino Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the editor-at-large of independent news website PressONE.ph. Concurrently, he serves as the defense editor of One News, a television news channel under Cignal TV.

Career Graduating from the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila in 1983, Mogato began his journalistic career as a crime, military, and political reporter for local newspapers. He was the graveyard shift police reporter for People's Journal Tonight and later for the revived Manila Times under Chino Roces until April 1986. He then covered the defense and military beats for the defunct Manila Chronicle during the turbulent years of Corazon "Cory" Aquino government. Meanwhile, he also served as assistant news editor for the Manila Times under the ownership of the Gokongweis for ten years up to 1999, until the newspaper temporarily ceased its operations due to political pressure from the government of Joseph Estrada. He had also worked for the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun for a total of seven years covering politics, security, and diplomacy before he moved to Reuters in 2003.

He reported on the downfall of dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and the People Power Revolution in 1986, the successful bid for the presidency of Fidel V. Ramos in 1992, numerous failed coups from the late 1980s until early 2000s, and the ouster of Joseph Estrada in 2001, among other important news. Also he wrote about disasters and humanitarian crises including the Luzon earthquake in 1990 and the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991.

In 2019, Mogato left Reuters to become the defense and diplomacy editor at cable TV news channel, Cignal TV's One News.

Mogato, alongside two other Reuters journalists Clare Baldwin and Andrew Marshall, won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2018. They were recognized for "[exposing] the brutal killing campaign behind Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs." Mogato is the second Manila-based Filipino journalist and the seventh Filipino to win a Pulitzer. Former president Fidel V. Ramos congratulated Mogato with a formal letter.