Gary Mariano
De La Salle UniversityViber WhatsApp Telegram+ 63 917 526 8371marianog@dlsu.edu.ph
Department of Communication
Assistant Professorial Lecturer, since 2021
Former Chair
Malaya Business Insight
Op-Ed writer, since March 27, 2025
About the photo: Taken by Jimmy Domingo in 2017 at the Hostallero house (built ~1930) in barangay Chavayan, Sabtang, Batanes, in connection with a documentation project for the National Historical Commission through the DLSU Social Development Research Council.
At right, cover of Censorship (Peter Lang, 2024) with our contributed chapter, written with Amy Forbes of James Cook University (Australia).
With Amy Forbes. "Censorship and the Emperor's Fake Clothes: Media Repression in the Philippines from Marcos to Duterte." In Censorship, Digital Media and the Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression, edited by Robin Andersen, Nolan Higdon and Steve Macek. Peter Lang, 2024, pp. 259-274. (Read only: https://bit.ly/PHImediarepression)
"Media-Citizen Councils and Dispute Resolution." Malaya Business Insight, 16 November 2024.
With Mia Mateo. "A 'Mandatory' Skill Set: Emerging Policy on the Use of Generative AI in Select Philippine Newsrooms." Upcoming presentation at the 2024 ACMC Conference, 1 November 2024; University of Social Sciences & Humanities, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh; lecture at the School of Journalism & Communication, University of Social Sciences & Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, 4 November 2024.
"Media-Citizen Councils." Presentation on Media Accountability. Batangas, June 2022; Iloilo, June 2022; Davao, June 2022; Angeles, March 2023; Aklan, 29 June 2023; Tacloban, 29 August, 2023; Surigao, 18 October 2023; Aklan II, 15 November 2023; Davao II, 14 December 2023; San Francisco, Agusan del Sur, 3 April 2024; Surigao II, 5 April 2024; San Francisco, Agusan del Sur II, 25 July 2024; San Agustin, Surigao del Sur, 27 July 2024; Cotabato, 27 September 2024; Bacolod, 24 May 2025.
"Decriminalizing Libel." Rappler, 4 January 2024.
With Mia Mateo, Janvic Mateo and Ariel Sebellino. "From National to Local: Media-Citizen Councils as Independent Co-Regulation at the Community Level." Asian Journal of Media and Communication, 8, 2024.
"A Journalist's Life." BusinessWorld Online, 9 August 2023.
With Lars Ubaldo. Ivatan Traditional Boat: A Construction & Maintenance Manual. National Historical Commission of the Philippines, 2018.
With Lars Ubaldo. Ivatan Traditional House: A Construction & Maintenance Manual. National Historical Commission of the Philippines, 2018.
Creator of Balitang Kababayan (1995-1998). Listed among the Treasures of the Internet.
"Reengineering the Newspaper." Ideya, vol. 1, no. 2, 2000. https://www.ejournals.ph/article.php?id=2489
"The Vanishing Newsroom." Ideya, vol. 2, no. 2, 2001. https://ejournals.ph/article.php?id=2567