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Emil Guillermo

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Columnist, TV-radio-pod host, journalist, humorist www.amok.com YouTube.com@emilamok1

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Emil Guillermo’s Biography

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Refreshingly modest, all things considered.

Emil Guillermo’s Journalist Portfolio

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Asian-American Scientist Accused Of Espionage Reportedly Fired

Asian-American Scientist Accused Of Espionage Reportedly Fired

For Asian-American scientists accused by the U.S. government of spying, Wednesday was a day of mixed signals.…

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Blog: Emil Guillermo: Why I write and go amok on behalf of Asian Americans everywhere - AALDEF

Blog: Emil Guillermo: Why I write and go amok on behalf of Asian Americans everywhere - AALDEF

August 12, 2015 2:33 PM I'm at the Asian American Journalists Association's annual convention this week, a ti…

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Blog: Ronald Ebens, the man who killed Vincent Chin, apologizes 30 years later - AALDEF

Blog: Ronald Ebens, the man who killed Vincent Chin, apologizes 30 years later - AALDEF

June 22, 2012 10:56 PM After 30 years, the killer of Asian American icon Vincent Chin told me in an exclusive…

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Two Months Detained, Daniel Maher's Deportation Ordeal Not Yet Over

Two Months Detained, Daniel Maher's Deportation Ordeal Not Yet Over

Last week, Daniel Maher was settling back in at his job as a recycling manager at the non-profit Ecology Cent…

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Stella Abrera Battles Back From Pain to Ballet's Ultra-Elite

Stella Abrera Battles Back From Pain to Ballet's Ultra-Elite

Stella Abrera calls herself an unabashed ballet nerd - "a total bunhead," she laughs. But after some rough pa…

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Fifty Years Later, Selma Marcher Still Fights for Civil Rights

Fifty Years Later, Selma Marcher Still Fights for Civil Rights

Even fifty years later, Todd Endo remembers clearly what he heard yelled from the sidelines as he marched in …

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Articles

OPINION | Why Fil-Ams should worry about America’s media crisis

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By Emil Guillermo 
| Inquirer.Net USA
FILE – Scott Pelley, anchor of “CBS Evening News,” at the CBS Upfront in New York, May 15, 2013. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File) For Filipino Americans, paying attention to the news isn’t a hobby. It’s survival. We come from a people who know what propaganda looks like. Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again. Your subscription has been successful. We know what happens when power controls the story. We know colonialism wasn’t just guns and soldiers.
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Op-Ed: When the news starts looking like propaganda

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By Emil Guillermo 
| ASAM News
by Emil Amok Guillermo For Asian Americans, especially Filipinos, paying attention to the news isn’t a hobby. It’s survival. We come from a people who know what propaganda looks like. We know what happens when power controls the story. We know colonialism wasn’t just guns and soldiers. It was newspapers, schools, churches, and official narratives telling us who we were supposed to be. That’s why what’s happening in American journalism right now should concern all of us.
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Op-Ed: South for AAPI Month

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By Emil Guillermo 
| ASAM News
by Emil Amok Guillermo I’m in Atlanta to do my one-man show about being an Asian American in the media “69, Emil Amok: Anchorman—The News Made Me Do It,” at the Atlanta Fringe Festival. The audiences so far have been all-white in the Little Five Points area, known as the more hipster part of town. Where are the Asians?
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Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

Yes. I wrote a column, mostly satirical.Lowell High in San Francisco was a funny place. The guy who wrote and directed "Heathers" went there.

Awards

AAJA-Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice

2015 - Civil Rights, Social Justice Journalism

Honored for reporting and commenting on civil rights of Asian Americans. Comes with $5,000 prize.

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AAJA-multimedia awards for General Excellence and Asian American Issues

2015 - Multi-media

Two awards from the Asian American Journalists Association in the multimedia categories for General Excellence and Asian American Issues.

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