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Community at a loss to explain Edmund Silvestre-vs-Filipino Reporter: ‘They were one happy family’
By Cristina DC Pastor The Filipino community was taken aback by reports that Filipino Reporter’s long-time reporter Edmund Silvestre has filed a labor complaint against his former employers. In Case 15 CV 4477 filed June 9, 2015 before the Southern District of New York, Silvestre is “seeking damages for the base salary he should have […]
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All the news that’s fit to edit: A chat with the NYT’s Cielo Buenaventura
By Cristina DC Pastor For journalist Cielo Buenaventura, getting into The New York Times and now holding the title of staff editor for the Culture section, was a combination of “audacious dreaming and dumb luck.” In 1988 while on a scholarship at Ohio State University, one of her professors, a former Times editor, suggested that […]
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David Lat: ‘I’m more of a journalist now than a lawyer’
By Cristina DC Pastor He is the son of successful Filipino immigrant doctors, grew up in an affluent New Jersey neighborhood of Saddle River, became a lawyer, and is now a blogger. Now, before some Filipino-Americans, obsessed with prestige and status, dismiss that summation of David Lat’s credentials as a big letdown, let’s be clear […]
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10 things I’ve learned about crowdfunding…and friendships
By Cristina DC Pastor The first crowdfunding campaign is said to have started in 1885, and the first beneficiary was the Statue of Liberty. At the time, there was no middleman called Kickstarter or Indiegogo, but the same principle applied. The people who were behind the project that would erect the Statue of Liberty – […]
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The journalist as a conflicted receiver of news
By Cristina DC Pastor As a reporter, I sometimes hear stories that are too wild I had to take a long, hard look at the storyteller to find out what he or she is actually saying. I don’t mean gossip – or the ‘chismis’ variety – where a person bad-talks a friend known to both […]
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Passports are the ‘heart’ of consular service: ConGen Mario de Leon Jr.
By Cristina DC Pastor Did you know that if you are a person with disability you do not have to wait in line for your passport application? You can “jump the line,” according to Consul General Mario de Leon Jr., in a press briefing with members of the Filipino American Press Club of New York […]
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The FilAm celebrates a Happy 4th: It was a very good year
By Cristina DC Pastor The past year began quietly enough in March of 2014. And then sometime in April, I got this email from The Newseum’s Visual Resources Assistant Colleen Bernhard asking for photos and a headshot. “The Newseum, in partnership with The Smithsonian Institution, is working on an exhibition on the origins and influence […]
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The FilAm tables at UniPro’s Opportunity Fair, finds students who love to write
By John Sapida This past Sunday, March 8, I had the opportunity to table for The FilAm magazine at UniPro’s Opportunity Fair at NYU Palladium, attended by hundreds of young Filipino Americans. The event, organized in partnership with the New York University’s International Filipino Association, was created to showcase several dozen community and government organizations, […]
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H.K.’s Xyza Cruz Bacani wants to meet the Filipino nannies in NYC, visit all museums
By Cristina DC Pastor What comes to mind when you hear New York? Huge city with a nice art scene and burgers! What NYC attraction are you dying to photograph? The streets of NYC. They look so interesting. Any Broadway show you’d like to watch? No idea, but I would love to visit all the […]