ABS-CBN Corporation announced the appointment of Ms. Mary Anne Francis T. Torres as Head of Integrated News and Current Affairs, effective January 1, 2023. Mary Anne Francis T. Torres, age 45 Ms. Torres has almost 25 years of journalism experience. Prior to being appointed as the Head of Integrated News and Current Affairs, she was the Head of News Production, where she was responsible for managing and overseeing the entire production operations of its news program TV Patrol and TV Patrol Weekend.

One of her notable achievements is the 2022 successful Halalan Marathon coverage. She started her career as a news writer for the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC) in 1998, she was eventually promoted as Executive Producer of various news programs, including 'The World Tonight' with Angelo Castro Junior and Tina Monzon Palma. In 2009, she was awarded the Benigno and Corazon Aquino Fellowship by the United States Embassy in Manila, and was part of its International Visitors Leadership Program.

She also handled current affairs programs, including Talkback with Tina Palma and Beyond Politics with Lynda Jumilla. In 2013, she moved to ABS-CBN as Head of Breaking News and Live Events. Concurrent to her role, she continues to work as the Managing Producer of ABS-CBN News Channel.

As such, she was tasked to produce the special coverage of the Visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines in 2015, and "PILI PINAS 2016", the Presidential Town Hall Debate held in Pangasinan. At the same time, she also led the News Desk as Chief Assignment Editor from 2015-2016, deploying reporters and helping set the daily news agenda for ABS-CBN's newscasts, and its cable, radio and digital news platforms. From 2017 to 2020, she led an ecosystem of news platforms and current affairs programs, including DOCU CENTRAL, the documentary unit of ABS-CBN News. This group produced several documentaries, including 'Di Ka Pasisiil', a documentary on the War in Marawi, which won a Gold in the New York Festival in 2018.

Ms. Torres graduated magna cum laude from the University of the Philippines with a degree in Broadcast Communication in 1998.