Vitug began her journalism career in the early 1980s, writing for the daily business newspaper
Business Day (now
BusinessWorld). In April 1985, Vitug received a News Reporting award at the 9th Catholic Mass Media Awards for her work in
Business Day during 1984. Vitug's first book, titled
Power from the Forest: The Politics of Logging, was published in 1993 by the
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. She founded with fellow journalist Glenda Gloria the weekly news magazine
Newsbreak, with its first issue released on January 24, 2001. Vitug is currently the editor-at-large of the Filipino news site
Rappler. ==Bibliography==