Hello. My name is Ted Regencia. I’m an Al Jazeera English journalist covering the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific regions. I am currently based in Manila after working for over a decade in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, Istanbul and briefly in Tehran.

As an online journalist, I have covered diverse stories – from the 2025 arrest of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte on charges of crimes against humanity – to the unraveling of the Iran nuclear deal , the Myanmar elections, the conviction of former Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak, and the 2018 earthquake in Indonesia. I have also followed closely the Rohingya displacement in Myanmar and the plight of thousands of Uyghur minority in China.

I finished my Masters in Digital Media from Columbia Journalism School in New York City, where covered the South Bronx, one of the poorest congressional districts in the US.

Before graduate school, I worked as  a journalist for a Filipino American publication in Chicago, where I had an opportunity to interview a US Senate candidate by the name of Barack Obama. Later, I covered his campaign for the presidency including his pivotal Iowa Caucus victory.

I took my undergraduate degree in mass communication at Silliman University and graduated cum laude. I also studied International Relations as a Japanese government scholar in Tokyo.

You can reach me at: tedregencia [at] gmail [dot] com and find some of my photos on Instagram @tedregencia.