The iOrbitNews Online has made its presence stronger among the Filipino-American community in the United States with the opening of its US News Bureau.
iOrbitNews Online founder Diosdado “Deng” Pangilinan has tapped Jonard Aquino, a Houston-based Kapampangan from Mabalacat City; and Allan Pineda, also a California-based Kapampangan from Angeles City, as part of the iOrbitNews US Bureau team.
Aquino, who hails from Barangay San Francisco, Mabalacat City, will cover the East Coast while Pineda will cover the West Coast. The iOrbitNews Bureau in the US will have its office in San Francisco, California, where there is a dense population of Filipino-Americans.
Pineda, of Angeles City, is an experienced photojournalist. For a time, he contributed to the defunct Angeles Sun of now Ambassador to Iraq Elmer Cato.
Pineda is now with the academe and currently working with the largest art school in US. He said his “first love is photojournalism.”
The Angeleno finished Bachelor of Arts Major in Economics, University of the Philippines in 1995. Between June 1998 and May 1999, he worked as Political Affairs Officer II of former Congressman Francis Nepomuceno at the House of Representatives assisting in the filing of bills, preparing speeches and correspondence.
Between January 1996 and May 1998, he also worked as Assistant City Information Officer of Angeles City.
Aquino worked for The Voice, a local tabloid edited by the late Ody Fabian. Aquino said “iOrbitNews is now widely read in the United States particularly among Kapampangans. They (Fil-Ams) yearn for news back home and iOrbitNews Online now brings Pampanga province closer to them.”
The iOrbitNews Online will also open news bureaus in the Middle East and Europe next year.