Cheche Lazaro

Cheche Lázaro (born Cecilia Aldaba-Lim in 1945 in Los Angeles, California), is an acclaimed Filipino broadcast journalist and the founding President of Probe Productions Inc. as well as an Editor-at-Large of online news website Rappler.

The eldest of six children, Cecilia "Cheche" Aldaba-Lim, was born to an engineer father and a psychologist mother. She was born September 8, 1945 in the US but decided to give up her US citizenship and chose to be legally Filipina when she applied for a scholarship for a master's degree in radio and television from the University of Michigan.

In 1966, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Drama at the University of the Philippines. She continued her studies at the University of Michigan and obtained her master's degree in Radio-Television in 1968.

She has been married to Filipino businessman Delfin Lázaro for more than 40 years, and together they have two children, Lisa and Carlos, and a grandchild.

Lázaro began her career working as a reporter for ABS-CBN. Between July 1986 and December 1987, she became director and manager of the network's Public Affairs department. This allowed her to be appointed Team leader and Reporter for the network's coverage of President Corazon C. Aquino's visit to Singapore and Indonesia.

Lázaro soon left her position in ABS-CBN in 1988 to create her own production company, Probe Productions, with the help of fellow journalists, Luchi Cruz-Valdez and Maria Ressa. This led her to produce several documentary programs such as 5 and Up for ABC 5 (now TV5), The Probe Team, I-Witness, and Che Che Lazaro Presents for GMA Network, which eventually became her home network.

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