With Mike's passing, Philippine journalism lost one of its pillars. Many also bid goodbye to a kind friend and inspiring mentor they fondly called 'Booma'.
The veteran broadcast journalist was a staple in Philippine television, having anchored GMA’s flagship newscast “24 Oras,” among other GMA news programs. He became one of the faces of hard-hitting journalism through his decades-long program, “Imbestigador,” where he zoomed in on the crimes affecting ordinary Filipinos.
Mike finished grade school in La Salle in 1964, high school at La Salle Greenhills in 1968, and obtained his commerce degree from the De La Salle University in 1973.Before his television persona was born, he was known as DJ “Baby Michael” on FM radio, his calm and soothing voice back then, the polar opposite of his booming and rattling news voice that he adopted for television.
“I saw and heard then another side of Mike that most are unfamiliar with – the mellow, English-speaking voice and un-jologs De La Salle graduate who could converse comfortably with the celebrity foreign anchors of the time,” Severino wrote in his post dedicated to his colleague.“It was another display of a remarkable tool kit that enabled him to adapt to any part of the broadcast industry he found himself in and build one of the longest and most successful careers in our field,” he added.
Jimeno added: “This is the tender part of the man who people think yells a lot. He does not. He is a kind man, a bit cantankerous at times, but very endearing, generous, and kind-hearted most of the time.”An attentive journalist with the eagerness to always be on the field – that’s how journalist Raffy Tima remembered hisAfter Super Typhoon Yolanda hit in 2013, Mike went to Tacloban City, where Tima was covering.
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