Published July 8, 2021, 1:55 PM BACOLOD CITY – Former National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) chairman Jose Jaime Espina passed away here Wednesday, July 7. This was announced by his sister Inday Espina-Varona on Facebook, saying that his 59-year-old brother died peacefully and quietly surrounded by family at 9:20 p.m. Espina, fondly called by colleagues as “Nonoy,” died of liver cancer and just recently, survived a severe COVID-19 infection, according to Varona. Espina, a veteran journalist, was a correspondent of the defunct TODAY newspaper and worked for a time in the lifestyle magazine of the Manila Standard. He also was an editor of the online news outfits Inquirer.net and Interaksyon.