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Saturday 5 January 2019

It’s A Wrap

THE TEAM what the real world will be like.”
Pilar Flores, 33 years old, is the jolly His hobbies include photography,
Video Host of ‘Ask Pilar’. She loves gaming, and working on his car. “I
doing the videos because she gets am not a car mechanic, however
to meet a lot of nice people and YouTube helps a lot and I find it
to know many interesting places. “I very therapeutic to put everything
hope with it that people will get to aside and work on this piece of
know and love Aruba the way us metal that helps me move long dis-
locals do.” Flores is Executive Edi- tances.” Juan Luis loves to capture
tor at Bon Dia Newspaper, Aruba moments with his camera and edit
Today’s sister, where she is fond them into a dynamic video.
of being up to date on all current Video Director of ‘Ask Pilar’ is Edi-
happenings and events and hav- tor-in-Chief Linda Reijnders, work-
ORANJESTAD — Aruba Today re- our videos we wish to inform and ing the inside information. She has ing in this current position since July
cently launched it’s very first video educate the visitor by showing lo- a Bachelor of Theology, achieved 2017 and before that for six years
of the series ‘Ask Pilar’ at Facebook cal places of any kind. in Aberdeen, Scotland and a Mas- with the local newspaper in Dutch,
Aruba Today and on our website We are all new to this, but goal is ters of Applied Ethics in Utrecht, Amigoe di Aruba as a journalist
www.arubatoday.com. Let us intro- not to deliver a technical perfect The Netherlands. and Editor-in-Chief of the maga-
duce to you this fresh new project result, moreover motivate with the “In my leisure time I like to walk in zine H&H.
and the people behind it. content and topic as well as the Arikok National park, play with my “I love working in the media, I love
good energy coming from it.” Aru- three cats, color and spend time to write, create, connect, inform
Why a video? Besides our daily ba Today will publish two or more with my boyfriend.” and educate. Working with young,
printed free newspaper, our posts videos per week and the concept The one capturing the images with talented and motivated people
on Facebook and Instagram and will be interactive. his camera and edit them into like Juan Luis and Pilar is a bless-
our website content we started Meaning that as the title of the vid- the end result is our Videographer ing to me. We really enjoy making
evaluating the plans for short vid- eo ‘Ask Pilar ‘already reveals, the Juan Luis Pinto Sotter, Marketing these Aruba Peeks and we for sure
eo’s about a year ago. The con- viewer has the tool to actually ask Major at the University of Aruba. “I hope that rubs off to the viewer.”
cept was created by Editor-in- about the topics shown or maybe chose marketing because I want- Check us out on Facebook Aruba
Chief Linda Reijnders to add varia- even suggest a location/topic for ed a career that kept me physical- Today or the website www.aruba-
tion to the product Aruba Today. a video. ly and mentally active. As a junior today.com and do not forget to
“There is more to this island than Just ask our host Pilar through Face- marketer there is a lot of moving like and share! Thank you for your
palm trees and beaches and in book comments or messenger. around, I can’t begin to imagine support.q