Joseph Ubalde, 33

JOURNALIST MARK Joseph Ubalde passed away Monday, April 1. He was 33 years old.

The cause of Ubalde’s death is still not known. Reports said his lifeless body was found in a room in a Bonifacio Global City hotel in Taguig.

Ubalde was a columnist for The Manila Times. Prior to joining The Times, he was with TV5.

Ubalde earned a degree in journalism at the University of the Philippines in 2007. He earned his Certificate on Online and Multimedia Journalism from the International Institute for Journalism in Berlin, Germany in 2010.

The Times reported that he started his journalism career in 2009 as Senior News Producer for GMA News. He moved to TV5 in 2011 as a multimedia reporter for Interaksyon.com where he won Best Online Report at the Migration Advocacy Media Awards for “Highlights and Lowlights: 38 years of Pinoys Abroad.” He also became a news and weather anchor for the network.

In 2013, he became content manager for News5.com.ph and then later worked as a consultant for the Asian Development Bank, the Presidential Communications Operations Office and the Department of Information and Communications Technology. He started writing his column for the Times in 2018.

Ubalde’s remains are at the Loyola Memorial Chapels in Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City, until Friday, April 5.