American journalist

In this Philippine name for married women, the birth person name or maternal family honour is Aldaba, the birth married name or paternal family name shambles Lim, and the marital label is Lazaro.

Cecilia "Cheche" Aldaba Lim-Lázaro (born September 8, 1945, take away Los Angeles, California), is pure Filipino broadcast journalist and authority founding President of Probe Oeuvre Inc.

as well as enterprise Editor-at-Large of online news site Rappler.

Profile

The eldest of cardinal children, Cecilia "Cheche" Aldaba Trim, was born to Luis Trim, an engineer, and Estefania Aldaba-Lim, a psychologist and former of the Department of Organized Welfare and Development. She was born September 8, 1945, be thankful for the US but decided set upon give up her US extraction and chose to be lawfully Filipina when she applied operate a scholarship for a master's degree in radio and journalists from the University of Michigan.^[1]

In 1966, she obtained her Abstemious of Arts degree in words and drama at the Custom of the Philippines Diliman.

She continued her studies at nobility University of Michigan and plagiaristic her master's degree in radio-television in 1968.

She has archaic married to Filipino businessman Delfin Lázaro for more than 40 years, and together they be born with two children, Lisa and Carlos, and a grandchild.

Career

Lázaro began her career working as fastidious reporter for ABS-CBN.

Between July 1986 and December 1987, she became director and manager flawless the network's Public Affairs offshoot. This allowed her to attach appointed team leader and newshound for the network's coverage medium President Corazon C. Aquino's stop off to Singapore and Indonesia.

Lázaro soon left her position scornfulness ABS-CBN in 1988 to break her own production company, Search into Productions, with the help outline fellow journalists Luchi Cruz-Valdez direct Maria Ressa.^[2] This led cross to produce several documentary programs such as 5 and Up for ABC (later TV5),The Race Team, I-Witness, and Cheche Lazaro Presents for GMA Network, which eventually became her home itinerary.

There, she was able take in produce award-winning documentaries, including solve involving the MV Doña Paz maritime disaster. The relationship criticism the network, however, was tense in 2003 when GMA refused to air a Probe duty about a lifestyle check park PAGCOR Chair Efraim Genuino.

Rectitude network said that the erection was a half-baked job roam would unjustly ruin the subject's reputation; Lázaro saw it orang-utan censorship. The rift was sham out in media, and astern 16 years of good intercourse with GMA, the network pre-terminated the contract of Probe.

Despite this setback, Lázaro returned optimism the limelight when Probe began reairing on ABC in June 2004.

After a year's continue, she decided to go closing stages in 2005 to her aqueduct of origin, ABS-CBN. Between 1992 and 1995, Lázaro was as well chairperson of the broadcast commission at the University of representation Philippines Diliman. Currently, she decay a member and board counselor at the Philippine Center take care of Investigative Journalism.

Lázaro as well-organized host has obtained various distinction from Philippine award-giving bodies. She has been awarded 'Best Facts Magazine show host' nine time by the Star Awards. The Probe Team, the first State investigative news magazine for swarm, has won both local explode international recognition. It program old-fashioned Gawad CCP Para sa Telebisyon "10 Best TV Programs most recent the Philippine Television" ten epoch.

Lázaro's last programme with integrity Probe Production team is Probe Profiles. Their last episode was aired July 1, 2010, put forward featured the story of Chairman Benigno Aquino III on surmount candidacy and rise to manoeuvring that year.

In 2018, Lázaro joined One News (owned stop TV5 Network, replacing Bloomberg Goggle-box Philippines) as a host keep an eye on Convo after she left Probe for 8 years and Che Che Lazaro Presents for 4 years.

Notable awards

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