Janette Arceo
Janette Arceo is from Samboan, at the southern tip of Cebu. She moved to Cebu City for college and stayed for the work, and she now oversees the Suroy.ph news desk.
She started editing young, on a school news desk, and what came out of that is the habit the job needs: she is difficult about detail. On Suroy.ph that shows up as the questions other people would let go. Is this fee current. Does this schedule still hold. Is the number on the page the number a reader will actually pay.
Her way of settling those is not complicated, which is why it works. She visits, or she calls.
She has travelled most of the Philippines and her heart stayed in Cebu, which is the province she edits most closely.
She is the editor of record for Suroy.ph Desk reports. Every one of them carries her name, because somebody has to answer for what a news report claims, and here that is her.
Reach her at editor@suroy.ph.
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