Ricardo Villanueva Puno Jr. (January 20, 1946 – February 15, 2022) was a Filipino television public affairs host,[1] media executive, newspaper columnist, and lawyer.
When President Joseph Estrada assumed power, Puno was appointed Press Secretary and ran unsuccessfully for a Senate seat in the 2001 senatorial race.
After this debacle, he returned to the media profession and re-assumed his old position at ABS-CBN, but lost it anew after he chose to anchor the network's reformatted national late-night newscast Insider with Ces Oreña-Drilon in 2005.
In February 2011, he joined AksyonTV and started hosting a weekly political commentary program called De Kalibre.
In March 2014, he joined DWIZ and started hosting a public affairs radio program called "Karambola".