{{Short description|Filipino online journalist and web trainer (1986–2019)}} {{notability|Biographies|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Joseph Ubalde | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Mark Joseph Ubalde | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1986|1|8}} | birth_place = Philippines | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2019|4|1|1986|1|8}} | death_place = Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Philippines | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | education = | alma_mater = | years_active = | employer = GMA News TV | spouse = | domestic_partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | notable_works = | signature = | website = | footnotes = | module = }} '''Joseph Ubalde''' or '''Mark Joseph H. Ubalde''' (8 January 1986 – 1 April 2019)<ref>{{cite news |title=Former reporter Mark Joseph Ubalde passes away |url=https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/metro/690258/former-reporter-mark-joseph-ubalde-passes-away/story/ |website=GMA News Online |date=4 April 2019 |access-date=7 March 2021}}</ref> was a Filipino online journalist and web trainer.
== Biography == He used to be the weather presenter for TV5's morning show, ''Good Morning Club'', as well as ''Andar ng mga Balita'', ''Aksyon News Alerts'', and ''Balitang 60''. He also headed News5 Everywhere as its content manager from 2013–2016 and was responsible for increasing its visibility online. He won two online journalism awards for his articles on absentee mothers and overseas Filipinos.
Before working for TV5, he was a Senior News Producer for GMANewsTV and briefly worked for VERA Files under his former teachers from the University of the Philippines - Diliman.
He was discovered dead in the bathroom of his hotel room in Bonifacio Global City on April 1, 2019.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.pep.ph/news/local/142259/former-tv5-anchor-joseph-seph-ubalde-passes-away-at-34 |title=Former TV5 anchor Seph Ubalde dies at 33 |last=Serato |first=Arniel C. |date=April 3, 2019 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website=PEP.ph |language=tl}}</ref> He had been battling depression, having been clinically diagnosed with it in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/04/06/19/late-journo-ubalde-opened-up-about-depression-in-facebook-video |title=Late journo Ubalde opened up about depression in Facebook video |last=Domingo |first=Katrina |work=ABS-CBN News |date=April 6, 2019 |access-date=June 13, 2023}}</ref> He also made a video about the condition one evening in late March, before his death.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/332003/lessons-from-seph-ubalde-how-you-can-help-a-depressed-person/ |title=Lessons from Seph Ubalde: How you can help a depressed person |last=Babao |first=Cathy S. |date=April 16, 2019 |access-date=June 13, 2023 |website=Philstar.com}}</ref>
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