Jovenal Mapalo Francisco Jr. (born June 11, 1969) is a Filipino broadcast journalist in the Philippines.

Career

Among 17 other journalists from different international media organizations including CNN, Jove Francisco is the only Filipino reporter to be accepted as a fellow in the Journalist to Journalist (J2J) program of the AIDS Vaccine 2011 Journalist Training Program Fellows by the Washington-based National Press Foundation held recently in Bangkok.

He has been covering health and politics for 15 years, spanning four administrations from Ramos to Aquino. He was an anchor for TV5's late night newscast Pilipinas News and AksyonTV's Balitang 60.

His name was mentioned by then-Rep. Gilbert Remulla during the congressional investigation on the "Hello Garci" controversy for his TV reports.

On October 10, 2015, according to a Media Newser Philippines' report, Jove has transferred to ABS-CBN.

On April 25, 2018, Francisco joined Cignal TV's One News.

In October, Francisco was promoted as officer-in-charge of One News, replacing Patrick Paez who was named new head of News5.

Filmography

Television

YearTitlePosition
2020–presentShort TakeHost
2019–presentSa Totoo LangCo-Anchor
2019–2023Wag Po!Co-Host
2018–presentOne News NowVarious Contributors
2018–presentThe ChiefsExecutive Producer
2016#NoFilterExecutive Producer
2015–2016The World TonightExecutive Producer
2014–2015Aksyon ToniteNews Anchor / Segment Presenter
2012–2014Pilipinas NewsNews Anchor
2011–2012AngguloCorrespondent
2011–2014Balitang 60News Anchor
2010–2012Aksyon JournalisMONews Anchor
2010–2013Aksyon WeekendNews Anchor
2008–2010TEN: The Evening NewsNews Anchor

Radio

YearTitleCharacter
2019–2023Wag Po!Co-Host
2019–presentSa Totoo LangCo-Host

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