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CBS reporter Hazel Sanchez: Learning resilience from her 5-year-old daughter
By Cristina DC Pastor The brown girl on the nightly news is very pretty. She reports in a clear, pleasant voice. Wonder who she is? I’ve heard this comment from a couple of friends describing Hazel Sanchez, general assignment reporter for WCBS-TV, before they knew her name. Hazel, 46, introduced herself to the community at […]
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The FilAm is now a print newsmagazine!
By Cristina DC Pastor & Rene Pastor On our 7th anniversary as an online magazine, The FilAm has decided to go into print. There seems to be a dash of irony in this venture. Most publications are diving headlong into digital publication. We are heading in the opposite direction, while still keeping TheFilAm.net. The reason […]
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GMA Network’s Christmas Station ID inspires viewers to love wholeheartedly
GMA Network invites viewers to spread love wholeheartedly via its 2017 Christmas Station ID dubbed, “Buong Pusong MaGMAhalan Ngayong Pasko,” which now airs on GMA Pinoy TV. This Yuletide season, the Kapuso Network helps bring to mind that any act of kindness, no matter how simple, can make a huge difference when it comes from […]
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Fil-Am Press Club launches journalism scholarship for HS students
On its sixth year, the Fil-Am Press Club of New York announced the launch of a Journalism Scholarship program for high school students across the New York metropolitan area. The launch was announced November 3 at the Philippine Center on Fifth Avenue as the club celebrated its anniversary with the theme “Celebrating the People Who […]
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Filipina journalist sued for ‘impersonating’ a New York Times reporter
By Cristina DC Pastor The woman The New York Times is suing for “physical impersonation” of a NYT journalist is Filipina reporter Rita Villadiego, formerly a reporter for the Philippine Daily Inquirer in Manila. In the U.S., she is a freelance journalist who wrote mainly for the Filipino Express in Jersey City, first under her […]
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Videographer’s wedding gift to injured state trooper: ‘Thanks for your service’
By Cristina DC Pastor Retired New Jersey State trooper Brian Malast and school teacher Julie Herb wed on October 20 at a historic town in South Jersey. The tavern where the ceremony was held was beautifully adorned with white tulips and roses. Brian was wheeled into the farmhouse by his brother and groomsmen. His beaming […]
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Ernabel Demillo is first recipient of ethics in journalism award
College Media Association (CMA), the nation’s largest organization dedicated to serving collegiate media advisers, is proud to announce the creation of a new award in honor of Frank LoMonte, former executive director of the Student Press Law Center. The first recipient of the Frank LoMonte Ethics in Journalism Award is Ernabel Demillo, television journalist and […]
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The FilAm wins 3 Plaridel Awards for excellence in Filipino American journalism
Writer Tricia Capistrano won Best Personal Essay at the 2017 Plaridel Awards for her piece “Inadequately Asian,” describing how the books she’s read has accompanied her on her picturesque journey through her Asian culture. The article came out in the May 25, 2017 issue of The FilAm. The FilAm Founding Editor Cristina DC Pastor won […]
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Kapuso network wins 3 NYC awards for multiethnic programming
For several years now, GMA International (GMAI) won three awards for its multicultural programming through GMA Pinoy TV, a leading broadcast company in the Philippines. GMAI bagged three awards from NAMIC or the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications for Excellence in Multicultural Marketing Awards (EMMA) in New York. The Manila network joins big names […]