BIO

Ron Lopez is a multimedia journalist, producer, editor, and certified drone operator based in Manila, Philippines who has worked in the print, broadcast, and wire agencies for 12 years.

His work has been featured in international news organisations such as BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle, and Channel News Asia.

As former correspondent for global news service Agence France-Presse, he closely followed the territorial dispute in the South China Sea. 

He joined maritime patrols in the Spratly Islands where they got chased by a Chinese warship and flew over the contested waters on a coast guard plane where they were told to go away by a Chinese coast guard ship over the radio.

Aside from covering human rights, typhoons, volcanic eruption and other disasters, he loves filming colorful culture and traditions in the Philippines such as the annual 'Black Nazarene' procession, the mass circumcision, and the gang tattoos in prison.

His stint as a broadcast journalist for ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp. focused on covering the government's deadly anti-narcotics crackdown under then president Rodrigo Duterte. 

For collaboration and assignments, email to ronlopez.ph@gmail.com