Marie Grace Michelle Bade Umali-Tima (born March 4, 1979), widely known as Mariz Umali (Tagalog: [ˈmaɾɪs ʊˈmalɪ]), is a Filipina television news anchor and journalist. She is known for being the main newscaster of the weekend edition of GMA News TV's Balitanghali (first aired in Q in 2010 and she is with former co-anchor Jun Veneracion until 2019). She finished broadcast communications course at the University of the Philippines Diliman but she started as a pharmacy student. She started to work at GMA Network as a researcher and producer of news content for the 2001 Philippine general elections. Besides Balintanghali, she also appeared as host or documentarian in other television shows such as I-Witness, Out of Control and Born to Be Wild. She also appears as one of the host of the Unang H