PULITZER Prize-winning journalist and UST journalism faculty member Manuel “Manny” Mogato is set to release an expanded second edition of his self-published autobiography, “It’s Me Bok! A Memoir of a Filipino Journalist.”
The second edition improves on the autobiography’s “first-draft-like version,” Mogato said.
“The font was too small and there were details I forgot to include,” he told the Varsitarian.
The second edition will feature a more comprehensive narrative of his decades-long career, including his coverage of extrajudicial killings during the Duterte regime.
In 2018, Mogato received the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting along with Clare Baldwin and Andrew Marshall of the Reuters news agency for their series of in-depth stories on President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.
Mogato’s memoirs recounts his professional growth from a police reporter for the People’s Journal in 1984 to an international journalist, while chronicling journalism’s evolution from typewriters to digital tools.
“I plan [to] launch [the second edition] on Aug. 20, a day after my 63rd birthday and a day before I got my first press ID in 1983,” Mogato said.
Mogato hopes the new edition will serve as a cautionary tale for students and aspiring journalists, allowing them to learn from his mistakes and the journalistic know-how he has gained over the years.
