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Friday, September 30, 2005
Newspaper editor dies after heart surgery, 43
CEBU CITY -- Ivan Suansing, the editor-in-chief of Cebu Daily News (CDN), died Thursday after a delicate heart operation at the Perpetual Succour Hospital. He was 43.
"He was a sensitive and brilliant editor in chief who developed the paper like an attentive father. He made sure it lived up to high standards of independence and professionalism," CDN publisher Eileen G. Mangubat said in a statement.
"His passing is a loss to the paper and Cebu journalism," Mangubat said.
He suffered a stroke last Aug. 31 and was diagnosed to have an aortic aneurysm.
A team of doctors from the Perpetual Succour Hospital and Philippine Heart Center in Manila performed a difficult 10-hour operation to install two grafts to strengthen his weakened aorta, but he succumbed at 10:05 a.m. to post-operation complications.
The wake is at the Cosmopolitan Nivel Hills in Barangay Lahug before Suansing's remains are flown to Iloilo City on Saturday. There will be a mass there Friday at 8 p.m.
Cebu became Suansing's home when he relocated from Iloilo to Cebu City and set up CDN as one of the four core editors in 1998. He was appointed editor-in-chief on July 1, 2004 after serving key editor posts.
Suansing left his law studies and began his journalism career as a police and sports reporter of the Western Visayas Daily Times (now Sun.Star Iloilo). He became editor of the paper before he resettled to Cebu and worked with CDN.
His passion for journalism began to bloom during Martial Law when, as a campus editor, he organized and headed the College Editor's Guild of the Philippines in Western Visayas.
Suansing is survived by his wife Chandra and children Samantha, 10, and Isaiah, 5. (AIV of Sun.Star Cebu/Sunnex)
(September 30, 2005 issue)
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