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‘The FilAm’ a finalist in New Media women start-up competition
WASHINGTON D.C. — Four public-service news ideas – from a site that compares local health costs and a tablet app for news comics, to a western North Carolina investigative news site, and a fast-growing LGBT site based in Seattle – each won a $14,000 award to develop their projects in the coming year. The award […]
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‘Don’t know how she does it
By Maricar CP Hampton Former FOX-5 reporter Ernabel Demillo is doing a fine juggling act, teaching journalism and practicing it, running a sporting goods business and raising an energetic 8-year-old daughter who dashes from a sleepover to a spa party. Wait, there’s more: She sits on the board of the Coalition for American Children Families […]
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Vargas, millionairess-in-waiting and the Top 10 stories for 2011
By Cristina DC Pastor The year 2011 has been an exciting one for Filipinos in New York. Although TheFilAm.net came by only in March, we were with you for most of the year and reported on the milestones of our lives as a community. Here is our list of Top 10 stories. Purely from a […]
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They came, they ate, they formed a press club
By Elton Lugay Members of the FilAm media gathered September 1 for Max’s Eat All You can Chicken press launch for what promised to be a marathon eating contest. Max’s in Jersey City is slated to launch its EAYCC promo from September 6 to 30 and sort of dared journalists to see how much chicken […]
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Writing for free need not be the future for journalists
By Cristina DC Pastor Founding Editor The FilAm Six months – and more than 40,000 unique views – later, we at The FilAm are ready to talk business. We’re now prepared to take on advertising from people who want their message and products to reach the vast, dynamic network of Filipinos, numbering anywhere from 150,000 […]
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Elevating the conversation on immigration — to comedy
Trust Jose Antonio Vargas to elevate the discussion on immigration by bringing it to political humorist Stephen Colbert. From the first question alone, Colbert could not resist lunging into the Pulitzer Award-winning journalist for being an “illegal alien.” “No, no,” a smiling Vargas protested the use of the term. “I’m an undocumented immigrant.” “Whatever,” Colbert […]
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‘I didn’t expect all this attention’
By Odette Keeley & Anthony Advincula New America Media Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas sits down with NAM to discuss his coming-out as an undocumented immigrant and his plans to use his story to spark an honest conversation about immigration in America. When he was growing up in the Philippines, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose […]
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‘Do you sponsor?’
By Cristina DC Pastor Feet in Two Worlds It’s a question I thought was crude and in your face. But if you’re an undocumented immigrant journalist looking for work, there really is no better way to ask. I’ve been asked this question on occasion in the six years that I was managing editor of a […]
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The resilience of Bamboo Girl: From warrior to healer
The bellicose Bamboo Girl zine editor of the late 1990s has recognizably mellowed. Margarita Alcantara is now a calmer person, an acupuncturist with a private practice and a life she concedes is not as self-obsessed. By Cristina DC Pastor TF: Where is the angry, confrontational Bamboo Girl now? MA: My fire is still there, it’s […]