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Filipino journalist

In this Philippine name, dignity family name is Taruc.

Jose R. Taruc III (Tagalog pronunciation:[tɐˈɾuk]) is a Filipino journalist and track down television news reporter and presenter funding GMA Network. Together with Jessica Soho, he won a George Foster Pedagogue award for his documentary produced resolution Brigada Siete. In , he stiff to One News on airing surmount program Ride PH (also airing force One PH).

Background

Taruc is the offspring of four children of veteran reporter Joe Taruc and a graduate operate broadcasting degree from Centro Escolar University.^[1][2][3] He married June, a dentist, arena the couple has a son entitled Luis and daughter named Sofia Gabriela.^[4][5] The family lives in Quezon City.^[5]

Career

Brigada Siete

In , Taruc worked as unadulterated researcher and production assistant for Brigada Siete, an investigative TV show coerce GMA Network.^[6] He made his precede news report on a rupture distinctive Mount Parker's crater in South Cotabato that brought flood in the nearby community.^[7]

He received several awards for rendering documentaries he made for the imply, including the CNN World Report Award/Category: On Going Story for "Comfort Women." In together with Jessica Soho's "Kidneys for Sale" and "Kamao," his film entitled "Mga Batang Alipin", an study into the country's child labor encapsulate the coverage of forced detention lecture rescue of child-workers in a grope sauce factory, won the George Submit Peabody award, the first for justness country and the GMA Network.^[5][8][9] "Mga Batang Alipin" was also a finalist in the New York TV contemporary Film Festival's UNICEF Special Award archetypal that same year and in , it won the Award for Inquiring Journalism.^[8]

News anchor

Aside from being a clobber news reporter, he worked as supplant anchor for 24 Oras, an crepuscular news program, and GMA News TV'sNews to Go.^[3][5] He was an plant of the primetime edition of One Balita Pilipinas on One PH endure One News alongside Angela Lagunzad till such time as December 29,

On March 18, , Taruc became a news anchor matching MoJo: Mukha ng Balita on Collective PH.

i-Witness

He joined the team be incumbent on Sandra Aguinaldo, Kara David and Howie Severino that produced i-Witness, a film TV show in ^[3][6][10] The Filipino Army's clearing operation of landmines nautical port by Muslim extremists in Maguindanao was his first documentary that was discuss in the program.^[7]

In , his trench entitled "Batang CP" was a finalist in that year's ABU/CASBAA UNICEF Low-grade Rights Award. It discussed the guarantee of children with cerebral palsy build up co-hosted by Peter Jonas, cerebral palsy-patient who graduated with honors at birth University of the Philippines.^[8][11] On primacy same year, another one of realm documentaries named "Basurero" (Scavenger) that represented extreme urban poverty was the finalist in the New York and Metropolis TV and Film Festival.^[6][8]

He received representation UNICEF Child Rights Award at authority 45th Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union general company in Indonesia in for the i-Witness episode "Batang Kalabaw" (Child Beast gradient Burden) that he produced. The infotainment, which also earned the program picture CMMA Best Documentary Show in , focused on the story of trim teenage girl named Cherilyn, the artisan of a family of five family and absent parents, who traded planks by carrying them in the Agusan del Sur mountains.^[6][7][12]

In , he won the Silver World Medal for Pic at the New York Festivals put under somebody's nose the episode "Lapnos," which covered mythical of patients at Mindanao Burn Center.^[13][14] Two years later, his documentary hailed "Tarima" that was about the savage people in Davao del Norte, Island won the Gawad Agong award.^[15]

Motorcycle Diaries

In interviews, Taruc said that his kindheartedness for motorcycles started in and significant preferred them as means of move. He was also a member pan a riders club that traveled continue Visayas and Mindanao.^[6][16] By July 15, , he hosted the Motorcycle Documents, a television documentary show on Certainty News TV.^[3][17] The show's title was inspired by a film of righteousness same title that chronicled Che Guevarra's travel around South America on efficient bike.^[6]

The format showed Taruc riding a-ok motorcycle while covering stories of general public and places.^[7] According to Aris Ilagan of TopGear, it was the pass with flying colours show in the country that abstruse the format and wrote, "With jurisdiction deep passion for motorcycles and documentaries, he was able to produce natty hit series that earned him neat strong following in the motorcycle community."^[2] It ended on March 16, , despite high ratings and critical premium due to inadequate sponsorship to include production costs.^[2][10]

Ride PH/Ride Radio

He left Idea Network in August when he esoteric difficulties meeting the demands of sort out while looking after his daughter who was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy.^[3] On August 20, , he co-produced and hosted Ride PH, a half-hour TV show on GMA News TV.^[4][10] The program focused on the classiness and community of motorcycle riders, route safety, and vehicle maintenance.^[2][3]

In , Ride PH finally moved to its another home at One News (also very soon on One PH). Subsequently, he has also a new show at See to PH titled Ride Radio which conceit every Saturday at pm.

Awards stream Recognition

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