MMJ 191 WEEK 1-About Me

Ferdinandh Cabrera started his media career when he joined the ABS-CBN Network as a regional TV news reporter in 2004 after his graduation at the University of Southern Mindanao in Kabacan, North Cotabato.

In 2007, he decided to shift as a freelance journalist, but GMA Network, another leading TV network in the Philippines picked him up to become their local TV stringer.

Aside from working in TV, he also contributes photo and stories for print and online locally and internationally.

He works alone while handling a multi-tasking work, as professional cameraman, photographer, video editor, writer and as the reporter himself.

Ferdinandh also caters field-producing job for foreign journalists who have story assignment in Central Mindanao.

As a Mindanaon journalist, he is for peace reportage. Mindanao in the Southern part of this country is treated only as defense beat of other reporters where armed conflict and other atrocities are major stories.

He described  himself as"one man team in south", one of  the most hostile region of this country where the infamous Maguindanao Massacre took place in 2009 killing in one moment  32 journalist in an election related incident.

His stories sent from this part of the country covers calamities, politics, human rights abuses, human trafficking, armed conflict, electoral sabotage, terrorism, environmental abuses, and 
other social issues.

Feature stories on rich culture and traditions, inspirational stories, human interesting stories and other light stories are of his favorite beats.
Today, Ferdinandh is gearing on multimedia journalism, targeting the social media/netizen community.
He is glad to join the first batch of diploma course on multimedia journalism at  Kondrad Adenauer,  Asian Center for Journalism at Ateneo de Manila University.