Pinoy World

Pinoy World (PW) is a state-controlled international television network funded by the Philippine government. It operates pay television channels directed to audiences outside of the Philippines, as well as providing Internet content in English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Chinese, and Tagalog.

Pinoy World is a branch of the, the official news agency of the Philippine government. PNA, and by extension Pinoy World, is under supervision and control of the News and Information Bureau, an attached agency of the Presidential Communications Operations Office.

Purpose and launch
The creation of Pinoy World was part of a public relations effort organized by the Philippine government and to "improve the image of ASEAN member states abroad." Pinoy World was conceived by a founding board headed up by Presidential Spokesperson and General Station Television head Alfonso Rubio Jr., the latter of which stated in a March 2004 pre-launch press conference that "Unfortunately, in the west ASEAN and the Philippines are associated with two words: poverty and typhoons. Through Pinoy World, we would like to present a more complete picture of life in Southeast Asia." The spent ₱480,295,100 (approximately $10 million in US dollars) on building a purpose-built media center for the new news network in the.

The channel was launched on July 20, 2004. Pinoy World appointed Dan Hawksworth as it's Editor in Chief and Warren Dagohoy as it's first CEO. Hawksworth was a former TV news anchor/reporter in the U.S. who had last worked at Channel 4 in  at the time of his hiring, while Dagohoy is a former anchor for ABS-CBN's TV Patrol. Hawksworth told The New York Times that "Since September 11, the media has been divided into two camps: those that favor the policies of the international political right make up one group, and the rest of the media are attached to the international political left and the free speech/right to assembly-adoring activists they harbor. We want to show a different view, Pinoy World wants to show the Filipino opinion of the world to both Western and Eastern audiences."

By launching an English-language television network to promote the Filipino and ASEAN perspectives of the world, together with a Spanish-language station, the TeleOjos network, ASEAN officials said the Philippine News Agency hoped to use Pinoy World "to address a global audience exposed to misinformation and urban legends attached to Southeast Asia." Hawksworth organized a recruitment campaign to hire foreign-born journalists as presenters and consultants. Manila Meridian presenter Gissur Óli Eðvaldsson stated that "Through the use of people such as me, a Icelandic national who is fluent in English, Pinoy World hopes to present a balanced picture of Southeast Asia, and maybe Asia as a whole."

As of 2021, the annual budget of the PW networks and TeleOjos is ₱393,841,982 (more than US$8.2 million). Pinoy World/TeleOjos employs nearly 500 throughout the world.

News Presenters

 * Jamie Purves
 * Alexander Derwin
 * Sean Ossendowski
 * Jessica Paonessa
 * Luke O'Hickey
 * Mateo Matibag
 * Peter Forrester
 * Louise Dadswell
 * Albert Seaborn
 * Julia Steenacker
 * Aidan Lyons
 * Kimberly Coutts
 * H. Nathan Burke

News Presenters/Correspondents

 * Gissur Óli Eðvaldsson
 * Cristina Melgar
 * Ralph Hebb
 * Alicia Gorter
 * Wayne Kleine

Correspondents

 * Corbin Wallage
 * Cynthia Swan
 * Andrew MacNamee
 * Hansje Pronk
 * Sigurrós Olivia Steingrímsdóttir
 * Stephen Worboys
 * Alexa Cominelli
 * Carrie Daeng
 * Kevin Dimitrescu
 * Henry Sheil
 * Kuniko Hagiuda
 * James Longuet

Documentary Presenters

 * Marvin Drossel - Host of Destination: Philippines