Meanwhile, he also served as assistant news editor for the Manila Times under the ownership of the Gokongweis for ten years up to 1999, until the newspaper temporarily ceased its operations due to political pressure from the government of Joseph Estrada.

[4] He had also worked for the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun for a total of seven years covering politics, security, and diplomacy before he moved to Reuters in 2003.

[5] He reported on the downfall of dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and the People Power Revolution in 1986, the successful bid for the presidency of Fidel V. Ramos in 1992, numerous failed coups from the late 1980s until early 2000s, and the ouster of Joseph Estrada in 2001, among other important news.

[1][2] Reporting for Reuters as a political and general news Manila-based correspondent since 2003, Mogato has traveled across Southeast Asia covering APEC and ASEAN Summits, the occupation of Marawi by pro-Islamic militants, typhoon Haiyan, regional pandemics, and other topics.

[9][10] Mogato, alongside two other Reuters journalists Clare Baldwin and Andrew Marshall, won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2018.