Cesar Mangawang
{{Short description|Filipino journalist (1953–2024)}}
{{Philippine name|Dulay|Mangawang}}
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| birth_place = Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines
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| alma mater = Colegio de San Juan de Letran
| occupation = Journalist
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Cesar Dulay Mangawang (January 4, 1953 – August 24, 2024) was a Filipino journalist. He headed the research department of the Philippine Daily Inquirer in 1986 and became an editor before retiring from the newspaper 30 years later.{{cite news|url=https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Author/Home?author=Mangawang%2C+Cesar+D.|accessdate=January 6, 2025|website=TUKLAS: UP Libraries' Resource Discovery Tool|title=Author:Cesar D. Mangawang|date=n.d.}}{{cite news|url=https://plus.inquirer.net/motoring/38-years-of-being-an-inquirer/|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer|first=Tessa|last=Salazar|date=December 7, 2023|accessdate=January 6, 2025|title=38 years of being an inquirer}}
Early life
Mangawang was a dean’s lister at Colegio de San Juan de Letran and editor of The Lance student publication.{{cite news|url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1976881/retired-inquirer-editor-cesar-mangawang-71|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer|title=Retired Inquirer editor Cesar Mangawang; 71|date=August 27, 2024|accessdate=January 6, 2025}}
Mangawang first worked as a press officer for the then Mayor Nemesio Yabut of Makati and as a project officer at the Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication.{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTFRAQAAMAAJ
|title=Official Gazette, Volume 81, Issues 40-43|page=4999|date=October 7, 1985|website=Google Books|accessdate=January 6, 2025 |author1=Philippines }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jmJiAAAAMAAJ|website=Google Books|title=Asian Communication Handbook|date=1993|publisher=Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre|page=431|isbn=978-9971-905-52-1 |accessdate=January 6, 2025}}{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ea4AAAAIAAJ|accessdate=January 6, 2025|website=Google Books|publisher=Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre|date=1991|title=Media Asia, Volume 18|page=174}}{{cite news|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E0NXAAAAMAAJ|website=Google Books|publisher=Center for Research and Communication|title=The Philippines at a Crossroad: Some Visions for the Nation, Volume 2|accessdate=January 6, 2025|date=1985}}
Death
Mangawang succumbed to heart failure on August 24, 2024, according to Gigi, his younger sister. His wake was at the Most Holy Trinity Mortuary on Sobriedad Street, Sampaloc, Manila where he was born and raised by his parents from La Union. He was cremated on August 30, 2024.{{cite news|url=https://www.msn.com/en-ph/news/other/retired-inquirer-editor-cesar-mangawang-71/ar-AA1ptefF?ocid=BingNewsVerp|accessdate=January 6, 2025|date=August 29, 2024|website=MSN|title=Retired Inquirer editor Cesar Mangawang; 71}}