Author: Paul Henson

2013 WPI Fellow

Executive producer of news, ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation
Quezon City, Philippines


Posts by Paul Henson:

My Summer and Fall in America

My Summer and Fall in America

(tAll smiles. The 2013 WPI fellows, center panel, on the electronic photo wall of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle) We arrived in St. Paul in summer; now it is fall, the journey is over. I arrived with a suitcase full of things I felt I will need for 9...
Next Top Model: Shaking Up Traditional Media

Next Top Model: Shaking Up Traditional Media

 I grew up at a time when traditional media was king in the Philippines.  It was shortly after the People Power revolution in 1986, the nonviolent uprising that overthrew the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, a period when critical media outlets were...
Where Were You When 9/11 Happened?

Where Were You When 9/11 Happened?

It’s an event which will forever define a particular point in our lives.  I had been a reporter for barely 2 years when 9/11 happened.  I had just come home from a long work day, watching the late night local newscast in Manila when the planes crashed into...