Marites Javier Dañguilan Vitug is a Filipina journalist and author who co-founded the news magazine Newsbreak.

[4][1] Marites Dañguilan Vitug was raised by her parents to be a devout Catholic in Solano, Nueva Vizcaya.

[6] The first major figure she covered was Jose W. Diokno beginning 1983, whom she claimed to literally follow for three years from his home in New Manila, Quezon City to his leadership of the first street parliamentarian coalition, the "Justice for Aquino, Justice for all" or JAJA, until his last year before passing, which she deemed a second education.

[8][9] Vitug's first book, titled Power from the Forest: The Politics of Logging, was published in 1993 by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism.

She founded with fellow journalist Glenda Gloria the weekly news magazine Newsbreak, with its first issue released on January 24, 2001.