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Inquirer publisher Isagani Yambot succumbs to heart attack
Veteran journalist and publisher of the Philippine Daily Inquirer Isagani Yambot succumbed to a heart attack Friday. He was 77. Yambot became publisher of the Inquirer in 1994. He underwent heart bypass surgery last week. "It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our publisher Isagani Yambot. Gani as he was fondly called was instrumental in the success of the Inquirer. We are very grateful to all of his contributions and we applaud his passion and commitment to his work. We request that you join us in prayer for the eternal repose of his soul," the Inquirer said in a statement sent out through its social media accounts. Deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte expressed the condolences of the Aquino administration on the passing of Yambot.
"We believe it is no exaggeration to say the entire fourth estate wished Isagani Yambot well, as he underwent cardiac bypass surgery. It has come as a profound shock to hear his bereaved family announce his passing. He writes 30 at a time when the newspaper he had worked with for so long, was enjoying unparalleled public trust and popularity," Valte said in the Palace statement.
Valte hailed Yambot's contribution to press freedom in the country from pre-martial law days to the present. "Isagani Yambot was a newsman in the no-holds-barred days before martial law, and continued in the profession in the oppressive martial law years; he was one of the links with the pre-martial law press who mentored a new generation of journalists to understand just how much a free press matters, and who stood shoulder to shoulder with his peers each and every time free speech came under attack after EDSA," Valte also said.
"He was a calm, cheerful presence not only in the newsroom and boardroom of his paper, but in every gathering of note among journalists and between media, civil society, and government. His was a voice of passion yet reason; the loss of his presence will be felt deeply by a nation that knows all a newsman can ask for, in the end, is this simple epitaph: he wrote it, as he saw it, with honest words and with his only master, the truth," the Palace spokesperson concluded. — ELR, GMA News
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