Benjamin Pimentel
San Francisco, California, United States
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About
I’m technology editor at Investor’s Business Daily, focused on the impact of key tech…
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When journalists use AI: Notes from a thought-provoking conversation
When journalists use AI: Notes from a thought-provoking conversation
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I joined Protocol at the height of the pandemic. It was the best move of my journalism career.
I joined Protocol at the height of the pandemic. It was the best move of my journalism career.
By Benjamin Pimentel
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“… the ball is in your hands!” - Cynt Marshall #GoBears
“… the ball is in your hands!” - Cynt Marshall #GoBears
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After a rough couple of years post-pandemic, major video game publishers led by Take-Two, Electronic Arts and Microsoft are taking action to focus…
After a rough couple of years post-pandemic, major video game publishers led by Take-Two, Electronic Arts and Microsoft are taking action to focus…
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Dow Jones CEO and Publisher of The Wall Street Journal Almar Latour was presented the Business Visionary award at PEN America’s annual Literary Gala…
Dow Jones CEO and Publisher of The Wall Street Journal Almar Latour was presented the Business Visionary award at PEN America’s annual Literary Gala…
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Activities and Societies: Philippine Collegian. UP Philosoc
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Member, Board of Directors
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
- 7 years 7 months
Arts and Culture
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival is the independent presenting organization dedicated to enhancing the vitality and quality of life in the parks and open spaces of Yerba Buena Gardens and other public sites of San Francisco through the curated presentation of free artistic, community, and cultural programs.
http://ybgfestival.org/
Publications
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How My Sons Lost Their Tagalog
Ateneo De Manila
See publicationEssays on the Filipino American experience.
From the foreword by novelist Criselda Yabes
"He switches from Filipino to English so delightfully, we can follow him as he tugs us towards his little adventures that make an event such as Christmas a milestone in our lives. He embraces languages and relinquishes them to us, shifting our emotions to what we know in the refrains of our culture, and in doing so gives us a berthing place of where we might choose to belong. He said he dreams…Essays on the Filipino American experience.
From the foreword by novelist Criselda Yabes
"He switches from Filipino to English so delightfully, we can follow him as he tugs us towards his little adventures that make an event such as Christmas a milestone in our lives. He embraces languages and relinquishes them to us, shifting our emotions to what we know in the refrains of our culture, and in doing so gives us a berthing place of where we might choose to belong. He said he dreams in Filipino, and that alone should tell us, in all the pieces in this collection, that there are things that cannot be left unsaid." -
Pareng Barack, Filipinos in Obama's America
Anvil Publishing
See publicationReflections on what the 2008 victory of Barack Obama meant for Filipinos in the United States.
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Mga Gerilya Sa Powell Street (The Guerrillas of Powell Street)
Ateneo De Manila
See publicationNovel in Filipino tells the story of World War II veterans who took risks in America for the sake of their families. In Powell Street, San Francisco, the former guerrillas are waiting, bearing loneliness and the cold, dreaming of the day they can return home.
Winner of the Philippine National Book Award for Fiction in 2007. Adapted for the stage by the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila in 2008 and Bindlestiff Studio in San Francisco in 2014. -
U.G. An Underground Tale
Anvil Publishing
See publicationThis book traces the unique, dramatic odyssey of Edgar Jopson, one of the leaders of the movement against the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos and the most intriguing figure of the First Quarter Storm and of the generation of young Filipinos who helped shape Philippine history. Named one of the best books on the Martial Law Years in the Philippines by the Philippine Daily Inquirer. 2nd edition published in 2019.
Projects
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Deadly Legacy, Dangerous Ground
See projectMy special report on the environmental impact of the U.S. military presence in the Philippines exposed a a trail of hazardous waste - from chemical-laced water that it is believed to have caused children to contract crippling diseases to unexploded bombs that have maimed and killed villagers. The story received the Best Investigative Reporting award from the Press Club of the East Bay in 2001.
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English
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Filipino
Native or bilingual proficiency
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