The Manila Mail is sweet sixteen, and already much-read!
******When the Manila Mail, the only fortnightly Filipino American newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area, first hit the streets on Nov. 15, 1991, none of the founders were very optimistic about its future in an area that is strewn with the relics of defunct newspapers.
******Today, the Manila Mail can boasts
of being the only professionally-edited newspaper in the mid-Atlantic region;
the only publication that is being run by an all-volunteer editorial and
business staff; the only newspaper that has never missed a deadline or an issue
(unlike most fly-by-night) ‘newspapers’; and is increasingly becoming the only
credible voice of the Filipino American community in the capital of the
greatest nation on earth.
******But enough of the boasts. As we
mark the start of our sixteenth year of uninterrupted publication, we leave it
to our growing readership to judge whether we have or have tried our best to
fulfill our dream of having an objective, fair, impartial, independent
publication that is beholden to no one, except the community that it serves.
******As a community publication, the
Manila Mail has metamorphosed from an initially angry mouthpiece of the
editorial staff who wanted to change the world, to a more tame, responsible,
and positive voice that truly represents the Filipino American community.
The newspaper has since served as a bridge between the Filipinos in the US and the
Filipinos in the home country, a link with the hundreds of organizations in the
area and a medium for advertisers wanting to reach out to the community.
******The dream of the founders to have a
newspaper that will become the voice of the Filipino American community in the
Washington D.C. area is about to become a reality; a voice that will be
listened to by the leaders in the community and those in the corridors of power
in Washington D.C.
******Sweet sixteen and never ... missed
an issue.
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