Mr. Nathaniel R. Melican is an instructor at the B.A. Journalism program of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Faculty of Arts and Letters. Mr. Melican has over seven years of experience as a journalist and has worked as a reporter for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and BusinessWorld, where he covered local government, the judiciary, and other national government agencies. Mr. Melican was also a data journalist with S&P Global Market Intelligence, where he covered U.S. financial institutions. He is a member of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.