Mark Saludes

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Mark Saludes is a journalist based in Manila who reports on social justice, the environment, peace and conflict, and human rights issues for the Christian Science Monitor since 2022. 

Before pursuing a career in journalism, he worked as a community organizer and a campaigner for environmental protection and Indigenous people’s right to self-determination in the northern Philippines.

Mark started his journalism profession as a documentary photographer covering the Philippines’ small-scale gold mining industry in 2012. He produced a series of documentary photography projects, including on child labor in the mining industry, which the New York-based Human Rights Watch published in its 2015 report.

He has since worked as a freelance journalist for various international and local news entities and was a staff reporter for the Catholic-run news site, LiCAS.news. He continues to freelance as a camera person and a cinematographer for China Global Television Network’s Assignment Asia and Al Jazeera.

Mark is a recipient of the 2020 Women, Peace, and Security Reporting Awards; the 2018 Gawad Agong sa Pamamahayag Awards; and the 2016 Save the Children Most Outstanding Photograph, People’s Choice Awards. He was also a top 10 finalist for the 2020-21 Journalism for an Equitable Asia Awards.

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