Niñez Cacho-Olivares, founder of Daily Tribune, writes 30

The founder of the Daily Tribune, its former publisher and editor-in-chief Ninez Cacho-Olivares passed away on Friday morning. 

She was 78.

Cacho-Olivares succumbed to lingering illness, according to the broadsheet in a Facebook post.

“Through all the challenges that the newspaper went through, she had one stubborn purpose, which was to put the Daily Tribune to bed every day,” the newspaper said.

During the Arroyo administration, Olivarez faced several libel charges filed by the officials and supporters of the government.

She was a feature writer and political columnist for the Bulletin Today, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Business Day, and Business World before founding the Daily Tribune.

NCO, as Tribune staffers would call her, was known for confronting and scolding her reporters whenever they missed stories or important details in their articles but would commend them for good ones.

She is survived by her children Peter, Bambina, Michael and Pixie, her children-in-law Tweety Quintero, Xandra Barretto, and Jay Fonacier, and her grandchildren Carlo, Iñigo, Isabella and Enrique Olivares, Samantha and Jessica Wise, Julio Olivares and Noelle Fonacier.

The family said the wake will begin on Saturday, January 4, at the Capilla de la Virgen, Santuario de San Antonio on McKinley Road, Forbes Park, from 2 p.m. to 11p.m. Mass will be at 5 p.m.

They added the funeral mass will take place on Monday, January 6, in Santuario de San Antonio at 9:30 a.m.. —NB, GMA News