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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 […]
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Filipino Reporter publisher, ex-war correspondent Bert Pelayo, 78
The community grieves the passing of Libertito Pelayo, the editor and publisher of the Filipino Reporter. Established in 1972, the Reporter is a weekly newspaper that has served Filipino Americans in the New York area for more than four decades, an important source of public service information, news and entertainment about Filipinos in the Tri-State. […]
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Do we now live in a world where people can get killed for their comedy?
Filipino American artists and comedians are trying to make sense of the murder of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and their editor allegedly by terror elements. Charlie Hebdo is the irreverent magazine in France that is known to satirize politics and religion and other institutions that are symbols of stodgy Establishment. The magazine has published caricatures of […]
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Community reacts to massacre in Paris: ‘No easy answers’
The terror attack that killed a dozen people, including five journalists from the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, drew comments from the Filipino American community. We are sharing some interesting ones here.