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Fond remembrances of Dr. Crispulo Icban Jr., editor in chief of the Manila Bulletin WELL-RESPECTED MEDIA MAN Mr. Icban’s favorite photo taken in his office while he was press secretary under PGMA administration In the 1980s, the Icban family would go to the Ali Mall in Cubao on Sunday afternoons for dinner. On the way there from Project 8, where they lived, Mr. Icban would purchase sampaguita from the street peddlers. He’d bring the strings of sampaguita to the mall and, as the family walked around, he would fall behind and eventually disappear. They would find him later standing by the ...

Published April 10, 2021, 12:08 AM Let me pay tribute to our long-time colleague and editor in this paper who passed away last April 5, Crispulo Icban Jr., everyone’s “Sir Jun” or “Mang June.” A bright self-effacing man, excellent editor, everybody’s friend, and mentor to all the reporters and aspiring section editors in the paper, he favored no one. In all his long years with the company, (47 years) he did not have an “enemy.” “He played fair to everyone,” a pillar in the public relations industry told us. Aspiring journalist-contributors, struggling public relations prac...

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Published April 9, 2021, 12:12 AM For Some precious moments every day in my almost seven years with the Manila Bulletin, I was able to spend in the office of our Editor-in-Chief Mr. Jun Icban. Tasked with writing the front page captions for the next day’s edition, I would go to his room – located at a far corner of the MB newsroom – and respectfully ask the “maestro” to edit my work. “Point of inquiry, Boss!” I would holler as I approach his secretary Nida, who would promptly usher me in. Hunched over stacks of paper, including the dummy pages for the next day’s edition of MB,...

Published April 7, 2021, 12:38 PM (MANILA BULLETIN) GIANT IN JOURNALISM: He was a giant in journalism, but he was a gentle one. Read it again and that makes him a gentle man. Soft-spoken and often low-key in public, even at the central news room of the Manila Bulletin, Crispulo ‘Jun’ Icban was one editor-in-chief you didn’t wish to avoid. His was a welcoming, bearded presence, formal yet friendly, forceful yet approachable, serious yet funny. He was kind. He was full of character. He understood measly paid journalists. He was one with them. Jun was a far cry from editors in the old days...