She is the current President of Nine Media Corporation,[1] owner of CNN Philippines (now RPTV), the country's very own local franchise of Cable News Network, since October 9, 2016.
She is also the Executive Vice President for News and Current Affairs and Managing Director of the network since November 4, 2015, replacing Jing Magsaysay who resigned in September 2015.
[3] She did a BA in Mass Communications at De La Salle University between 1984-1988, and started her media career as a news writer and top-of-the-hour radio newscaster of stations 99.5 RT (now 99.5 Play FM), Kiss FM 101.1 (now 101.1 Yes The Best) and Citylite 88.3 (now Jam 88.3) (the first radio affiliate of CNN in the country), under Francis Lumen, from 1989 to 1996, at the same time, she did voice-over for radio commercials.
She unsuccessfully auditioned to succeed Tina Monzon-Palma as anchor of GMA Headline News.
[4] She moved to Atlanta to work as an intern of CNN Radio, doing multi-tasking as floor director, teleprompter operator, and video journalist in 1996.