LIST OF PINOY AND FIL-AM NOTABLES IN THE LITERARY, NEWSPAPER AND PUBLISHING

o    Byron Acohido - Part Filipino, Part Korean.  He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 1997.              BYRON ACOHIDO is the aerospace reporter for The Seattle Times, where he has worked for the past                     ten years.  From 1985 to 1987 he worked at the Dallas Times Herald as an editor and  <more>       

o    Alberto M. Alfaro - Editor-in-Chief, Manila Mail

o    Peter Bacho - Writer

o    Cecilia Manguerra Brainard - Award Winning Writer

   Cielo Buenaventura - is a copy editor on the metropolitan copy desk of The New York Times, where she                     often slots stories for the paper's city and regional report. Buenaventura had previously worked at New                 York Newsday, The Advocate of Stamford, Conn., and Malaya of Manila, Philippines. <more>

   Carlos Bulosan - Outstanding Filipino Writer

o    Howard Chua - Time Magazine Senior Editor
   
o    M. Evelina Galang - Writer

o    Tita Dioso Gillespie - Newsweek's General Editor

o    Jessica Hagedorn - Famous Novelist

o    Michelle Malkin - Nationally  Syndicated Columnist

o    Gene G. Marcial - Senior Writer, Business Week
   
o    Veronica Pedroza - CNN News Anchor

o    Libertito "Bert" Pelayo - Publisher and Editor of Filipino Reporter
 
o    Carlos P. Romulo - He served as the President of the Fourth Session of United Nations General Assembly                 from 1949-1950, and chairman of the United Nations Security Council. He had served with General                         Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific, was Ambassador to the United States, and became the first Asian to                 win the Pulitzer Prize in Correspondence in 1942. The Pulitzer Prize website says Carlos P. Romulo of                 Philippine Herald was awarded "For his observations and forecasts of Far Eastern developments                     during a tour of the trouble centers from Hong Kong to Batavia." <more>

o    Ninotchka Rosca - Award-Winning Novelist and Short Story Writer

o    Bienvenido Santos - Well-known Writer of Fiction and Poetry

o    Alex Tizon -  He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1997 alongwith colleagues             Eric Nalder and Deborah Nelson from The Seattle Times. 

            He is the special projects writer for The Seattle Times, where he has worked for the past ten years. He                 has been a news and features reporter, as well as a staff writer for Pacific, The Times' Sunday magazine.             He has done freelance work for CBS News and Newsweek magazine and has been published in                             numerous literary journals, including a literary anthology (Choosing to Emerge) published by Harper                     Collins in 1993.   The Times nominated him for a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for his coverage of youth gangs                 and street <more>

o    Jose Garcia Villa - Foremost Filipino Poet



                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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