Career
As a veteran broadcast journalist, Palma was a reporter who maintained “strength, courage, and dignity” during Martial Law in the Philippines. She is one of the first female news anchors on Philippine television She began her work as one of the first news anchors of Global Media Arts Network when she first anchored News at Seven, The 11:30 Report and later Global Media Arts Headline News before she left in 1992 when she moved to the repopened American Broadcasting Company and later ABS-Christian Broadcasting Network til present.
She is a program director of Bantay Bata 163 and Sagip Kapamilya public service programs of the ABS-Christian Broadcasting Network Foundation, Incorporated.
(American Film Institute), an organization she joined in 1998 when she left as the chief operating officer of the reopened American Broadcasting Company (now TV5) and she also the lead anchor of the network"s late night newscast Big News until 1998 when she was transferring to ABS-Christian Broadcasting Network Channel 2. Associated with cable"s African National Congress, the ABS-Christian Broadcasting Network News Channel, and the Asia News Network, Palma is currently the newscaster for the Philippine nightly news program The World Tonight on ABS-Christian Broadcasting Network Channel 2 since 1998 replacing Loren Legarda when she is currently the three-term senator and was also simulcast on African National Congress (then the Sarimanok News Network) but in 1999, it was replaced by Pulso: Aksyon Balita due to low ratings and The World Tonight moved to African National Congress. Palma also became the host of Talkback with Tina Monzon-Palma, a "weekly issue-oriented interactive talk show" considered as the “first truly Filipino interactive television show”.
Her Paksa, a program broadcast by ABS-Christian Broadcasting Network on Department of Administration and Management radio, discusses subjects such as women, labor rights, welfare of children, and the "militant poor". She is also the director of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), a private non-profit and non-stock company.
During her early life as a news reporter, Palma was involved with civic organizations such as the Quezon City Red Cross and the Citizens Traffic Action.
