Harry Gasser


Harry Gasser was a Filipino news presenter Gasser was the face of Philippine evening news at the time of the dictatorial regime of Ferdinand Marcos.

Career

He started his journalistic career as an anchor of Balita Ngayon on ABS-CBN from 1969 to 1972. Following the closure of the network during Martial Law, Gasser transferred to BBC-2 where he anchored BBC Primetime News from 1973 to 1977. He was the main anchor of RPN's NewsWatch during the Marcos regime. He also worked with Radio Veritas as news manager and later moved on to ABS-CBN to anchor TV Patrol in Cebu from 1998-2001.
He was also overseas program manager and news manager of Radio Veritas.

Filmography

Gasser was married to veteran comedian Flora Gasser. They have two children. Loren Legarda, who co-anchored NewsWatch with Gasser on RPN, noted that "he was a proud Cebuano."