[The Wide Shot] Journalism 101, the Jesuit way

This is a modified version of an article originally published in the March 2024 edition of ‘The Windhover: The Philippine Jesuit Magazine.’ Rappler is republishing this in commemoration of the Feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, on July 31.

Once, I asked my students to watch a press conference of then-president Rodrigo Duterte. “Write a story about it,” I said. “Choose the best angle.”

Duterte, as usual, was rambling — first talking about the pandemic...