A Filipino journalist, who contributed to the Reuters’ Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation on President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war in 2018, was shot dead by a gunman while watching television at his family’s store in Calbayog City, Samar province, on Wednesday.
Jesus “Jess” Malabanan, 58, a correspondent for the Manila Standard who had also worked for Reuters as a stringer, was shot in the head by a gunman at around 6.30 p.m. He was rushed to a nearby hospital but was declared dead on arrival.
