BA Original Doc breaks the story of Nanay Fedelina, a victim of modern-day slavery in Los Angeles

“I was taking care of the kids. Day and night, it was only me watching them. They controlled my food, did not pay me.” Nanay Fedelina summarizes her life in captivity for the past 65 years with a family she served who brought her to America in the 1970s and who cut her ties from her own family.

The story of Nanay Fedelina, domestic worker and human trafficking survivor, will be featured in the BA Original Documentary KEPT: Six Decades of Servitude, airing soon on TFC.

ABS-CBN TFC’s BA Executive Producer Troy Espera Selected as 2018 Fellow of Maynard Institute for Journalism Education

The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, a nonprofit dedicated to making newsrooms look like America, announced today the recipients of its inaugural Maynard 200 Fellowship for training journalists, producers, management, and journalism entrepreneurs of color.

Troy Espera, executive producer of ABS-CBN The Filipino Channel’s (TFC) BA, a 30-minute nightly news program produced and aired on TFC in North America, was selected to be among the fellows to receive two weeks of training as part of the pilot Maynard 200 program. 

Maynard 200 aims to expand the diversity pipeline in media by training 200 diverse storytellers in the next five years. The program is supported by Google News Lab, the News Integrity Initiative and the Craig Newmark Philanthropies, and is in partnership with USC Annenberg and the City University of New York [CUNY].