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Inday Espina-Varona
Varona was born in Manila, Philippines and attended the University of the Philippines in Quezon City to study journalism.
Varona was born in Manila, Philippines and attended the University of the Philippines in Quezon City to study journalism. She began her career as a reporter at the Visayan Times, a local newspaper in Bacolod City before moving to the national dailies in Manila. As investigative news chief of the Manila Times, she directed a number of project that won awards including a series on Filipino children suffering from tuberculosis and telecommunication firms ignoring consumers’ problems. She won the country's top prize for investigative journalism in 2007 and has been a consistent finalist for explanatory and investigative reports. The former chair of the National Union of Journalist of the Philippines was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 2005-2006.
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