Joe Torres is the managing editor of GMANews.TV. A member of the Subanen tribe of Western Mindanao, he was a two-time recipient of the National Book Award for Journalism for his books Unholy Nation: Stories from a Gambling Republic (2004) and Into the Mountain: Hostaged by the Abu Sayyaf (2002). Joe was conferred the Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Fellowships for Professional Development in 2005. Joe is the national chairman of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.
