Mike Baños

Executive Editor

Mike Baños has been a writer for most his life, a journalist for most of it, with occasional delusions of being a poet and songwriter. He grew up in Zamboanga City, learned the ropes of journalism under the late, great E. Rene R. Fernandez and writing from Linda Cababa-Espinosa. He writes a twice weekly column "Hammer & Anvil" for the Mindanao Gold Star Daily, which is also published online by American Chronicle. He is a member of the Cagayan de Oro Press Club, Inc. and its faculty pool for the training module "Responsible and Independent Journalism." It is being implemented in partnership with the South East Asia Rural Social Leadership Institute (Searsolin) of Xavier University (Ateneo de Cagayan).  Mike is the Executive Editor for all OP/ED articles in our Z-Free Press.  We invite your voice to be heard.