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Thea Canieso Riņen
Personal information
Birthdate: July 5,1963
Status: Single
Religion: Roman Catholic
Address: #97 9th St. San Antonio Village, barangay Apas, Cebu City
E-mail address: thea_rinen@yahoo.com
Telephone no.: (032)231-2817
Mobile phone no.: 0917-3218931
WORK EXPERIENCE
December 2000 to present
Editor-in-chief, Cebu Daily News, Cebu City
- Plans and sets the editorial direction of the paper and ensure that deadlines are met in coordination with the managing editor, draws up editorial standards and policies, hires and fires editorial personnel, draws up editorial budget, ensures that staff is motivated and brings recognition to the paper. Occasionally edits copy.
1997- November 2000
Managing editor, Cebu Daily News, Cebu City
- ran the administrative and operational aspects of the newsroom, coordinated with section editors and ensure that deadlines are met. The position also requires a certain degree of cleaning up copy of reporters and correspondents.
1994 1997
Correspondent, Philippine Daily Inquirer
- Filed news stories and other articles for the Manila-based daily from Cebu.
August 1984 October 1997 Sun.Star Daily, Cebu City
1995- 1997 - City editor/ assistant news editor
1994 1995 - Copy editor
1984 1994- Reporter
- As city editor, I assigned reporters to certain areas to cover, helped in cleaning up their copy and closed/lay-out some inside pages.
- As assistant news editor I implemented tasks tasks assigned to me by news editor. I continued to assign stories to reporters and talked with them about their coverages.
- I prepared the list of stories of the day and submitted it to the news editor for evaluation. Still I helped in cleaning up the copy of reporters and closed/layout some inside pages.
- Attended daily news conferences presided by editor in chief
- occasionally covered major news events
1988-1991
Stringer, Associated Press
- Filed stories of interest to the Manila bureau of the Associated Press as well as other stories assigned to me while being based in Cebu.
1986 1989
Correspondent, Manila Chronicle
- Filed stories to the Manila-based Manila Chronicle.
1986
Program coordinator for Direct Line radio program, a 30-minute public affairs program aired daily over dyLA-AM
- Called prospective guests for the radio program both government officials or
private prominent persons and arranged for them to be interviewed by program host and Sun.Star Daily editor-in-chief, lawyer Pachico A. Seares. Sometimes I suggested what topic would be interesting to discuss.
May 1983 June 1984
Reporter, Republic News, Cebu City
- gathered news data and wrote these into stories
March 1983 May 1983
Pinch-hitting for regular disc jocks/anchorperson at dyLA-FM radio
- spins records, did the hourly newscast and prepares playlist
Beats covered as a reporter: City Hall, Capitol, politics, defense,law enforcement, environment, urban development (power, infrastracture), interest groups, courts, general assignment
TRAININGS/SEMINARS ATTENDED
1. Street Strategist’s Accounting Wizard Seminar
March 18, 2003
Golden Peak Hotel, Cebu City
2. Street Strategist’s Basic Financial Analysis Seminar
March 20, 2003
Golden Peak Hotel, Cebu City
1. Inspiring Excellence in your Organization:Leadership Talk seminar-workshop
Oct. 22,2002
Marriott Hotel, Cebu City
2. 2nd Regional Conference of the Personnel Management Association of the Philippines
“Optimizing Human Capital in Building Passion-Driven Organization”June 20-21, 2002
Marriott Hotel , Cebu City
3. Seminar on Microsoft Office XP
Ng Khai Training CenterMarch 7,2002
Cebu City
4. Cebu Economic Journalists Association Visit to the Philippine Stock Exchange (with briefing-lecture)
Nov. 9, 2001 in Metro Manila
5. How to Keep your Staff Productive and Happy
March 24, 2000 at the Cebu Midtown Hotel in Cebu City
(Dennis L. Cauvier Seminars International)
6. Economic Reporting: from Boardroom to the Market
March 25, 2000 sponsored by Stet, a group of women journalists, College Of Law of the University of San Carlos and San Miguel Corp. held at the SMC 1521 function room
7. Investigative reporting and Covering the `98 Elections
November 1997 sponsored by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental
8. . Seminar on Business Reporting
Oct. 18, 1997 sponsored by Metrobank in Cebu City
9. National Press Forum
April 1997 sponsored by the Philippine Press Institute and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Manila
10. Assertive leadership skills seminar
August 1997 in Cebu City
11. Roundtable conference of the Confederation of Asian Journalists
July 1996 sponsored by the Singapore Union of Journalists in Singapore
12. Seminar-workshop on the RP Illegal Drug Situation
February 1992, sponsored by the Dangerous Drugs Board in Cebu City
13. Covering the Executive Department
- 1995 sponsored by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism in Manila
14. Seminar on Libel law
August 1994, sponsored by the National Press Club with the ACCRA law Office in Cebu City
15. Seminar-workshop on Contextual/Perspective
Journalism April 1994, sponsored by the Philippine Press Institute in Manila
16. Cultural exchange visit to Xiamen, PROC.
Member of the Cebu City delegation in September 1988
17. Seminar-workshop on Community Journalism
1986, sponsored by the University of the Philippines
in Diliman, Quezon City
18. Seminar-workshop on Population and Development
July 1985, sponsored by the Press Foundation of Asia in Quezon City,Philippines
AWARDS/HONORS RECEIVED
2002 Cebu Daily News received Best Edited community paper given by the Philippine
Press Institute-Konrad Adenauer Foundation
1995 Best Special Reporting on "Will Cebu become another Manila?"
Catholic Mass Media Award (CAMMA) awardee (shared with four other reporters)
1994 Editor's Cup, Sun.Star Daily (in-house award shared with another reporter)
1993 Best News Reporter of the Year (part of the team of reporters who covered the series of
stories on Nubain, a regulated drug abused by illegal drug dependents), CAMMA
1992 Awardee for deadline reporting, an in-house award of Sun.Star Daily
1987 Editor's Cup, Sun.Star Daily
1989 1993 Recipient of plaques of appreciation from the Visayas Command, Philippine Navy, Philippine Air Force and Philippine National Police while covering the police/defense beats
EDUCATION
1979-1983 AB Mass Communications, University of the
Philippines College Cebu in Cebu City
1975-1979 High School, Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion in Cebu City (Award/Honor received Silver medalist, Creative Writing)
1969- 1975 Elementary, Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion in Cebu City
1968 1969 Preparatory School, Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion in
Cebu City
AFFILIATIONMember, Association of Cebu Journalists
Member, Stet (association of women journalists in
Cebu)
Member, Newscoop
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
GN3 publishing software
LANGUAGES/DIALECTS SPOKEN
English
Cebuano
Filipino
HOBBIES/INTERESTS
Writing, reading, surfing the Net, listening to music, watching movies, dancing, cooking, hiking, learning new crafts
REFERENCES
1. Atty. Augusto Go, president of the University of Cebu Chairman of ASPAC Rural Bank, Cebu Chairman of Toyota Cebu Inc Chairman of Visayas Surety Insurance.
2. Lelani P. Echavez, managing partner of LEAN Consultants in Cebu City
3. Edralyn Benedicto, Visayas bureau chief, Philippine Daily Inquirer
4. Michelle P. So, managing editor, Sun.Star Daily in Cebu City
5. Ma. Theresa V. Ilano, correspondent of Business World
6. Jeruel Roa, corporate communications director of San Miguel Corp.
7. Ma. Jane Paredes, public affairs manager of SMART Communications Inc.