Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) – Neal H. Cruz, veteran journalist who was two-time president of the National Press Club, died on Tuesday (July 28) at the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City. He was 85.
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Our prayers and deepest sympathies to the family/loved ones of former NPC President and Inquirer columnist Neal Cruz who…
Posted by National Press Club of the Philippines on Tuesday,
Two weeks ago, Cruz slipped in his bathroom and hit his head, according to The Philippine Daily Inquirer, for which he had been writing a column, “As I See It,” since October 19, 1994.
He had surgery at St. Luke’s to remove a blood clot in his brain. He had to be operated on again two days later after doctors discovered fresh bleeding. Then on Tuesday, he died.
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When the Philippine Daily Inquirer needed a columnist to fill a slot in the Opinion section, Neal H. Cruz was the first…
Posted by Philippine Daily Inquirer (Official) on Tuesday,
Cruz is survived by his wife Marina and children Doris, Dennis, Dinna, and Desiree, along with granddaughters Isadora Lyanne and Ma. Isabella.
His wake started on Wednesday at the Mount Carmel Church in New Manila, Quezon City.
Cruz, a native of Malabon, studied at the Malabon Elementary School and went to high school at the St. James Academy (Maryknoll).
Encouraged by Sr. Stephen Mary, his high school literature teacher, he enrolled at the University of Santo Tomas to take up journalism.
By his own account, he was able to complete his course due to a scholarship, supplemented by his monthly stipend of P30 from the Varsitarian, where he was literary editor, and his earnings from the freelance writing that he did for various national magazines.
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BREAKING: Inquirer columnist and former Varsitarian Literary editor Neal Cruz has passed away at 85.Photo by Jaime T. Campos
Posted by The Varsitarian on Tuesday,
Read: The Varsitarian helped me finish college
After graduation, Cruz got hired as literary editor of This Week Magazine of The Manila Chronicle.
During the martial law regime of President Ferdinand Marcos he was managing editor of the Daily Express.
After the EDSA People Power Revolt, he served as editor-in-chief of various national broadsheet newspapers – Philippine Tribune, Philippine Herald-Tribune, and Philippine Daily Globe.
Outside of his newspaper work, he founded the Kapihan sa Maynila at the Manila Hotel with Pat Gonzales, former editor-in-chief of the Manila Bulletin who his publisher at the Philippine Tribune.
Read: Neal H. Cruz: My editor, my friend
On leaving the NPC, he joined some colleagues in founding the Samahang Plaridel, an organization of journalists and media communications professionals.
In 2011, the St. James Academy Alumni Association honored him as one of its Outstanding Alumni: “For meritorious accomplishment in the field of journalism. A consumate writer and journalist, his literary works and journalistic discourses graphically articulate the moods and peculiarities of the times.”
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VETERAN newspaper editor and columnist Neal H. Cruz died Tuesday (July 28) at the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon…
Posted by St. James Academy of Malabon on Tuesday,
Colleagues, friends, and readers started posting their condolences on social media on learning of his death. Here are some of those posts:
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