BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – The media community here and in the province of Negros Occidental mourned the sudden passing of two veteran journalists yesterday.
Jerome Galunan Jr., sports blogger, writer and teacher, passed away around 7:10 a.m.
A few hours after, Radyo Bandera Sweet FM-Bacolod anchorman Rushmore Ubas also died in a hospital.
Galunan was previously a sports writer for the Watchmen Daily Journal. He also worked as editor for Sportsjourn.com and taught at Sum-ag National High School in this city.
Galunan was survived by his wife and a daughter.
Ubas, meanwhile, was formerly an assistant station manager and anchorman of Bombo Radyo-Bacolod.
In 2017 he joined Radyo Bandera Sweet FM-Bacolod as anchorman for the 11-MBPS program.
Ubas had assisted many people in his radio program, especially Negrense and Bacolodnon overseas Filipino workers.
Ubas left behind a son and two daughters.
The Negros Press Club (NPC) headed by Yves Buenafe Montecillo mourned the loss of two of its members.
Montecillo remembered Galunan as hardworking and dedicated to his profession both in the academe and the media, and Ubas for his straightforward reporting and insightful and dynamic commentaries.
The NPC extended its condolences to the journalists’ families./PN
