Atty. Maria Jane Paredes
Lecturer

After her retirement in 2021 from Smart Communications, where she was Assistant Vice President/Center Head, Public Affairs-VisMin, she now teaches (part time) Communication and Journalism subjects at the UP Cebu College of Communication, Art, and Design. She completed her elementary and high school studies at St. Theresa’s College Cebu and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism degree from the University of the Philippines’ Institute of Mass Communications in Diliman, Quezon City. She has a Juris Doctor from the University of San Carlos College of Law and was admitted to the Philippine Bar in 1998. Her stints in the news media include, among others, being a reporter, and news director of dyBU-FM, and station manager of dyRC-AM. She also worked as a reporter for the now defunct Republic News and as editor of SunStar Daily Cebu and columnist of The Independent Post and Cebu Daily News. She was also a Public Affairs Assistant of the United States Information Office-Cebu station. In the early 1980s, she co-founded STET Women in Cebu Media, a group of retired and active women journalists, whose advocacy is to mentor the younger generation of Cebu media practitioners.