{"id":5948,"date":"2023-01-18T14:20:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T14:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/?p=5948"},"modified":"2025-04-10T06:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T06:52:51","slug":"this-reporter-slept-his-nights-at-the-ramos-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/archives\/5948","title":{"rendered":"This reporter slept his nights at the Ramos police station"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/324373859_1290709301496213_4448038822326607516_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5949\" width=\"455\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/324373859_1290709301496213_4448038822326607516_n.jpg 655w, https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/324373859_1290709301496213_4448038822326607516_n-290x300.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><br><strong><em>JOE B. MARTINEZ (1912-1980)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This reporter slept his nights at the Ramos police station<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><br><span class=\"focus\">J<\/span>ose B. Martinez was police reporter of The Republic News and correspondent of the Philippine News Service (which later became the Philippine News Agency), Philippine Herald, Manila Chronicle and Evening News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He ran a one-person news agency. He gathered and wrote the police stories, reproducing carbon copies for distribution to news outlets in Cebu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During most of his journalism career, he chose to be near his source. He slept in a small room at the Ramos police station so he could be alerted when a big story broke. <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/imgs\/stopperpic.png\" alt=\"\"><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"809\" data-id=\"5970\"  src=\"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/veteran2.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5970\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/veteran2.webp 768w, https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/veteran2-285x300.webp 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>One-man news agency<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>(From \u201cAsa ang Republic?\u201d in Newsroom Tales)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><span class=\"focus\">J<\/span>oe Martinez ran probably the first \u201cnews agency\u201d after the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His was not the kind of news agency that we know \u2014 corps of reporters and correspondents, transmission facilities, and a lot of news outlets as clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a one-man outfit. Joe gathering and writing the stories. Joe reproducing copies by typing the stories on bond paper with quadruplicate carbon paper. Joe delivering them to his clients. And Joe billing them and collecting payments, ranging from P20 to P60 a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fees were not as cheap as they look now. Aside from inflation adjustment, the service was limited: stories were all police stories and shared by most news outlets. The few exclusive police stories he gave only to his main employer, The Republic Daily.&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/imgs\/stopperpic.png\" alt=\"\"> <strong>\u2013 Pachico A. Seares<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><br><a href=\"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/passage\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/passage\/\">&lt;&lt;&lt; Related posts<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOE B. MARTINEZ (1912-1980) This reporter slept his nights at the Ramos police station Jose B. Martinez was police reporter of The Republic News and correspondent of the Philippine News Service (which later became the Philippine News Agency), Philippine Herald, Manila Chronicle and Evening News. He ran a one-person news agency. He gathered and wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5948"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10399,"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions\/10399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cebujournalism.ph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}