Reporting from Joplin, Missouri a day after the May 22, 2011 tornado tragedy.
Ted Regencia is an M.S. Digital Media student at Columbia Journalism School, Class of 2012. He currently covers the South Bronx in New York City.
Before coming to New York, he worked as a freelance multimedia journalist in Chicago contributing stories to the AOL website Patch.com and the Filipino American cable station TFC among others. He has interviewed Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin. In May 2011, he covered the tornado tragedy in Joplin, Missouri.
As a reporter for the ethnic Filipino publication PINOY Newsmagazine, he interviewed then-U.S. Senate candidate in Illinois Barack Obama in 2004. He also covered Obama’s pivotal victory in Iowa and the Nov. 4, 2008 presidential election.
In 2001, Ted was one of the youngest reporters to cover the impeachment trial of former Philippine president Joseph Estrada and the military-backed popular revolt that followed. At one point, he stayed up for 48 hours straight to cover and report about the uprising.
He graduated with a mass communication degree, cum laude, from Silliman University in the Philippines. While in college, he earned a scholarship to study at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan.
Ted loves to travel. At 19 he slept outside Rome’s Stazione Termini to save his money for admission to the Sistine Chapel. However, he lost his moxie to swim the frigid waters of Tiber. Despite his fear of heights, he mustered enough courage to do the Almighty Hermes jump in Wisconsin Dells.
After graduation, Ted hopes to cover the Middle East, Afghanistan and Asia and report about stories of regular people affected by the many triumphs and turmoil that happen every day in those regions.
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I am so pleased to discover this website, thanks to some EVITE on facebook. So you’re leaving Chicago for NYC? to do what for TFC and XINHUA News? Let’s get together before July 20 for coffee. I wish you well in your journalism work and wish to stay in touch. I want to do research on OFW around the world, to find out how their values of family, childrearing, and their Christian faith might have changed as a result of globalization.
Let me know of your interest.