[OPINION] Making the important interesting: My Rappler journalism fellowship experience

“A journalist’s job is to make the important interesting,” Rappler’s Mindanao coordinator Herbie Gomez shared this quote with fellows during our in-person training at the Rappler office in December 2023. 

Little did I know that these words would resonate with me throughout the program. 

When I was still a reporter at a digital media agency assigned to cover city hall stories in Cebu for almost two years, I held the notion that readers my age preferred light, fun, and entertaining...