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The Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) is one of the top national daily broadsheets in the Philippines.

It was founded by journalists Eugenia Apostol, Betty Go-Belmonte, Max Soliven, Luis Beltran, and Arturo Borjal in December 1985, a month after ailing strongman Ferdinand E.

Marcos, under pressure from the United States, called for a snap presidential election. Beltran served as editor-in-chief.

For running reports critical of Marcos, PDI was among the few publications referred to as “alternative media,” that played a major role in the ouster of Marcos through the February 1986 People Power Revolution.

Belmonte, who was Inquirer’s co-chairman and treasurer, resigned from her post in May 1986.

Her son Miguel Belmonte, now Philippine Star president, said this was after then president Corazon Aquino named his father GSIS president. Belmonte was concerned this might affect the paper’s credibility.

Borjal, Soliven, and Beltran later broke away from Apostol an