By Ruffy Magbanua
Mindanao Daily News continues telling the importance of a good story to its valued readers,
anchored to its clarion call as purveyor of truth, justice and progress.
For a community newspaper to last 15 years is a feat by itself.
And it is not only through having survived, Mindanao Daily News has grown to become not only the largest regional community newspaper but one known for its leadership and innovation.
Today, Mindanao Daily News has played crucial role in community-building as the front center in digital-journalism evolution.
Mindanao Daily News was born out of grit and determination of Dante M. Sudaria 15 years ago.
He established Mindanao Daily News as his response to the journalism need of an emerging metropolis that is Cagayan de Oro City — of a voice to herald its growth amid many challenges in this era of social media revolution.
Mindanao Daily News continues to bring to its readers lively editorial content, community news, calendar of events, and educational topics, history, arts, and culture, business, leisure, legal notes, government and politics, health and medical news, consumer and food news, movie and food reviews.
Mindanao Daily News had been sharing success stories, among others, how it helped build a community newspaper basically anchored on its core values of upright community journalism.
Mindanao Daily News will continue to carry out its playbook consistently and decisively.
It has adapted to social media, digital platforms, as well as fighting disinformation and alternative facts, the challenges of connecting with the community and various publics, its evolving role in translating events and pressing development problems.
Way forward, what is ahead of Mindanao Daily News ?
The future of news, and the changing audience responses such as the growing desire for more meaningful and thoughtful content as well as news that is carefully fact-checked, these are Mindanao Daily’s playbook summed in this tagline: crusader of truth, justice and progress.
To sum it up, it looks like the future of Mindanao Daily, and social media as a whole may be brighter in the light of trends such as a greater recognition of the rights of community journalism as well as the need to empower the men and women behind the headlines.
This is Mindanao Daily News today – like an Eagle flying high and mighty in the world where only a few good men and women dare to thread.
This is Mindanao Daily News today on its 15th year of spreading relevant and timely news to Mindanao and beyond.
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