Ms. Calica is The Philippine STAR’s multimedia editor tasked to manage One News PH. Before she became part of the desk in July 2016, Ms. Calica covered the six-year-term of former president Benigno Aquino III starting from 2010 as Malacanang Palace reporter.

Entering The STAR as a fresh Journalism graduate of the University of Santo Tomas, Ms. Calica was first assigned in police beats as well as local courts and local governments. She then rose from the ranks to become reporter for foreign affairs, judiciary, politics, among others.

In the course of her career, Ms. Calica has joined a fellowship in Japan as well as special media coverages, seminars and trainings both in the Philippines and overseas. She currently serves as one of the coordinators for the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) in the Philippines.

Mr. Mateo is senior writer and assistant editor-at-large for One News PH. He covers human rights, education, climate change and information technology as senior reporter of The Philippine STAR. He also writes about politics, foreign affairs, justice and science and technology.

He leads The STAR’s participation in Impact Journalism Movement, which brings together news organizations around the world to simultaneously publish stories that promote concrete solutions to development problems.

Mr. Mateo also teaches news writing at the University of the Philippines, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in Speech Communication in 2011. He is also a graduate student of development communication from the same university.

He was a fellow of the Reham Al Farra Journalism Memorial Fellowship of the United Nations in New York in 2019, and was a participant in the Study of the United States Institutes on New Media Journalism program held at Southern Illinois University in 2010.