John Nery
Inquirer.net, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Editor in Chief, inquirer.net
Manila, The Philippines
John Nery is editor in chief of Inquirer.net and associate editor and opinion columnist at the Philippine Daily Inquirer. He has received top Philippine prizes for investigative journalism: a Catholic Mass Media Award for a series on kidnapping, a Jaime V. Ongpin citation for a series on gambling, and a Louie R. Prieto Grand Prize for another series on kidnapping. Two books he edited won the (Philippine) National Book Award for journalism: "Into the Mountain: Hostaged by the Abu Sayyaf" (2001) and "Unholy Nation: Stories from a Gambling Republic" (2003). He is the author of "Revolutionary Spirit: Jose Rizal in Southeast Asia," published in Singapore and in Manila in 2011. He was a Jefferson Fellow at the East West Center in 2005, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore in 2009-2011, and a Nieman Fellow for Journalism at Harvard University in 2011-2012.