{"id":4574,"date":"2008-01-08T19:07:25","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T08:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php\/about\/"},"modified":"2008-01-08T19:07:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T08:07:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?page_id=4574","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"par_text\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/img\/about-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> The Philippine Tribune started as a community-based newsletter in Woodcroft,              NSW, a suburb that is only 10 minutes away from the City of Blacktown.              Formerly known as <em>Tinig Filipino<\/em> in Woodcroft, circulation was then              confined to only 500 Filipino families in the area. As the years went by, the              name was changed to <em>Woodcroft Tribune<\/em> after it was discovered that              the name Tinig Filipino held an international copyright owned by a Filipino              magazine being circulated in Hong Kong. The magazine catered to over 150,000              Filipinos working in the former British Crown Colony. On October 2008, the name was changed to Philippine Sentinel because of a defamation case lodged against Philippine Tribune.<\/p>\n<p class=\"par_text\">In August of 2013, the readership profile of Philippine Sentinel was              dramatically increased to over 50,000 as more and more Filipinos became              interested in reading the paper. Circulation reached phenomenal proportions               as the demand for advertising space continued to grow. As of 2013, circulation has reached 20,000 copies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"par_text\">As the paper now caters to readers in Woodcroft, Doonside, Blacktown,              Marayong, Rooty Hill, Mt. Druitt, Castle Hill, Glenwood, Asquith, Chatswood,              Campbelltown, and as far as Melbourne and Brisbane, the name Philippine Sentinel became more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"par_text\">While some of our readers have suggested that we upgrade to tabloid size,              the majority still prefers the present A4. Even the former Philippine Consul              General Maria Theresa Lazaro commented that the size is so handy and very              easy to read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"par_text\">At present, we do not have plans of using newsprint because of ink smudges              on the fingers. Although more expensive, we try our best to maintain the              present quality of white paper which is preferred by both readers and              advertisers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"par_text\">We are very choosy about the news articles we print, making sure that the              topics discussed are of interest to readers. We occasionally publish social              events but such news items do not dominate the identity of the paper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"par_text\">We are aware that in the practice of journalism, it is an impossible task to              please everybody. That is not our intention. Our aim is to provide current              information as they happen; making sure that reporting is as accurate as              possible, after careful verification from reliable sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine Tribune started as a community-based newsletter in Woodcroft, NSW, a suburb that is only 10 minutes away from the City of Blacktown. Formerly known as Tinig Filipino in Woodcroft, circulation was then confined to only 500 Filipino families in the area. As the years went by, the name was changed to Woodcroft Tribune [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}