Eugenia Apostol, Whose Journalism Helped Topple a Dictator, Dies at 100
A publisher in the Philippines, she used her women’s magazine as a forum for political stories that helped drive Ferdinand Marcos from power.
Eugenia Apostol, a Filipino publisher who transformed her women’s magazine into a platform for brave and hard-hitting journalism that helped turn public opinion against the country’s dictator, President Ferdinand Marcos, and who remained a force for independent journalism for decades, died on Sunday in Manila. She was 100.
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