Veteran media man Alvin P. Capino succumbs to cancer at 64

Seasoned communications practitioner Alvin P. Capino succumbed to kidney cancer Thursday evening, his son, Paolo Capino, said in an interview with GMA News Online.

 

Capino is also survived by his wife, Eva, and daughter, Karen.

 

Paolo Capino said his father battled cancer for about two years. The elder Capino was 64.

 

Until three months ago, Alvin Matthew Palmes Capino was a columnist at the daily broadsheet Manila Standard Today and lead anchor of the DWIZ radio program "Karambola".

 

From 2001 to 2010, Capino served as a member of the board of directors of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority.


Capino began his communications career as a public relations assistant with Lexington International. He later worked at the defunct Department of Public Information, at Pilipinas Shell as a public relations consultant, and at Mobil Oil Philippines as assistant public relations manager.

 

In 1986 and 1987, Capino was a senior reporter of the Observer Magazine and thereafter at The Independent. 

 

He was also a columnist at the Philippine Free Press and the broadsheet Today. He was a commentator at radio networks DZRH, Radio Veritas, and DWWW.

 

He returned to the public relations arena in 1992 to 2000 via the firm Zorilla and Partners, where he rose to become its vice chairman.  — Earl Victor L. Rosero/JDS, GMA News