Danifel Manaba Campilan (November 27, 1980 – October 7, 2006), was a radio and TV reporter for GMA Network. As a radio reporter and later as a TV reporter, Campilan was practically in the center of many upheavals and shakeups that the country has gone through, from the impeachment of former Philippine president Joseph Estrada and the swearing in of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to the impeachment bid of Supreme Court Chief Justice Hilario Davide. He was a reporter in GMA Network before his death at the age of 25 in a road accident. Personal life He was born in Mabolo, Cebu City. Work prompted him to establish residence in Tandang Sora, Quezon City, away from his family members. The eldest of six children, he helped pay for the tuition of his siblings in his native Cebu. A scholar of the Department of Science and Technology, Campilan was a student of the Cebu Institute of Technology, Florencio Urot National High School, and Mabolo Elementary School. He was also a college activist and a member of the League of Filipino Students. Before GMA News, Campilan worked with RPN Channel 9 for two years, and with Bombo Radyo Philippines at its Makati office. Career He started his career in Bombo Radyo Philippines in September 1999 as a Regional Beat Reporter in Bombo Radyo Cebu and in December 1999 until 2002 he was assigned as Justice and Malacañang Beat Reporter. Before he joined the GMA Network, he was with RPN from September 2002 as Congress Beat Reporter until in January 2004 as Justice Beat Reporter. In his first year at GMA Network, 2004, Dan was one of Howie Severino's trainees. But he soon proved to be capable and reliable, and not needing basic training since he had significant reportorial experience at RPN and Bombo Radyo Philippines, covering Makati. His superiors first took notice of Dan as a 19-year-old cub reporter when he spent Christmas Eve and day of 1999 reporting the M/V Asia South Korea tragedy in Daanbantayan, Cebu. His idols were Christiane Amanpour and Larry King of CNN. As a Bombo Radyo reporter covering the Edsa Tres May 1 riot, he was blinded by the teargas but found an instant, unlikely antidote: "Para mawala ang anghang sa mata, dinakot ko yung ice cream na tinitinda nung mama sa Mendiola at pinanghilamos. Nagsunuran na rin yung iba. Sorry manong, but you saved my