Brain Contour

Zaida delos Reyes-Palanca and her brand of news writing make me think if she could report effectively a news item without being too very graphic. She regularly writes for Journal Online and her stories are almost always linked at the homepage. She uses heavy descriptive language with every post full of facts that you end up remembering the details of, say, a killing or a rape.

I never fail to read her articles as they are really in a class by itself, a far cry from the rest of the news reports posted on Journal Online and from those I often read from Philippine Star or the Philippine Daily Inquirer. If you translate verbatim a tabloid article written in Filipino, the exact match is Zaida delos Reyes-Palanca’s English article. Read the samples below.