MANILA, Philippines - “I never thought that the Philippines had such a beautiful and well-put together journalistic product,†said veteran American journalist Richard “Dick†Stolley, 85, the former editorial director of Time and Life magazines, while flipping through the July 2013 Anniversary Issue of Rogue at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
“Rogue is on the cutting edge of great editorial content. Like the best kind of magazines, yours has a unique voice and is always surprising,†Stolley, the founding editor of People magazine, told Rogue editor-in-chief Paolo Reyes, who is attending the Magazine & Digital Media program at Yale together with editors and publishers from Condé Nast, Hearst, and Time Inc.
Stolley’s glowing praise for the top-selling homegrown glossy, which celebrates its sixth anniversary this month, comes in the wake of three international media awards for Rogue.
The 2013 Asian Publishing Awards, one of the most prestigious award-giving bodies in the region, recently awarded the upscale monthly magazine with Best Cover (“The Reconstruction of Iza Calzado,†July 2012 issue) and Best Use of Illustration (“The House of Cards,†June 2012 issue) last July 12. In both awards, Rogue bested 31 media companies from eight countries, including Singapore, Thailand, and Hong Kong. Last April 9, Rogue also won a Finalist Certificate (Best Multimedia Production) at the 2013 New York Festivals Awards for its groundbreaking April 2012 interactive cover.
Now on sale in leading bookstores, newsstands, and through Zinio.com/Rogue for the digital edition, Rogue’s much-talked-about anniversary issue is headlined by Celine Lopez, who has reinvented herself as a novelist (The Recorded History of a Girl, out in Hong Kong and London this August; an exclusive excerpt is published in the issue) and a movie producer (the hit Sundance heist thriller Metro Manila, to be screened locally this October).
Other top stories include “The Shallow Graves,†a heartbreaking and powerful account adapted from Choy Cojuangco’s upcoming book, where 83-year-old Lulu Cojuangco-Rivilla — one of the last living survivors of the 1945 La Salle Massacre — finally breaks her silence after nearly seven decades, while Rhona Lopa-Macasaet reconstructs the horrifying final days of the Cojuangco, Vazquez-Prada, De las Alas, and Aquino family members using never-before-seen photographs.
In the riveting special report “The Untouchables,†Rogue’s award-winning investigative journalist Jonathan Franklin uncovers the saga of corruption, scandal, and murder surrounding the Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) and the 2014 Brazil World Cup, featuring explosive interviews with football legends Romario and Zico, who were shot for the magazine by GQ, Rolling Stone, and Washington Post photographer Morten Andersen.
Also in Rogue’s jam-packed July issue is “The Wandering Rothschild,†a profile on the nomadic banking heir-turned-eco billionaire David de Rothschild, 34, who sailed into Manila on his water-bottle catamaran, The Plastiki; “Fortune’s Children,†an in-depth portrait of the Count Ermenegildo Zegna family — Italy’s last great textile clan — now managed by fourth-generation cousins; and “A Cruel Inheritance,†an exclusive interview with HRH Princess Alia of Jordan, who was interviewed by Rogue and WWD correspondent Bambina Olivares-Wise inside the Royal Compound in Amman about her late father and the future of the 1,500-year-old Hashemite dynasty.
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