About ReyFort Media

ReyFort Media

Overview

ReyFort Media is a Filipino-Canadian online news outlet based in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, and the digital home of the Reyfort Media Group, the publishing house behind the Philippine Asian News Today newspaper and Philippine Showbiz Today. Publishing at reyfortmedia.com under the banner "Bringing Asian Media Across North America," the site carries community journalism for Filipinos in Canada: consular and embassy news, civic debates, cultural events, business stories, columns and entertainment coverage, reported largely from Vancouver and Surrey but organized for readers across Canada and the United States.

The outlet is built around the Filipino community of British Columbia, one of the oldest and largest Filipino populations in Canada, while its coverage extends well beyond the province. Its homepage sorts city and local coverage by region — Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and the USA sit alongside its Metro Vancouver reporting — reflecting a readership of Filipino families spread across the country. Stories range from Philippine Consulate General events in Vancouver to migrant-worker advocacy in Alberta and community petitions delivered to the Philippine Consulate in Toronto.

ReyFort Media is the online expression of a print publishing business with deep roots in the community. Its publisher, Rey Fortaleza, is a former Philippine Olympic boxer who immigrated to Canada in 1990 and built the Reyfort Media Group into a group whose titles include the Philippine Asian News Today, Philippine Showbiz Today and Living Today magazine. The website republishes and extends that reporting online, posting original community stories under the ReyFort Media byline, including coverage signed by Fortaleza himself.

History

The history of ReyFort Media begins with its founder. Reynaldo "Rey" Fortaleza was born on December 26, 1957, in the Philippines, one of the celebrated Fortaleza boxing brothers. As an 18-year-old bantamweight he represented the Philippines at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, reaching the quarterfinals. He immigrated to Canada in 1990, where his first jobs were far from media: silk-screening work at minimum wage, then training and work as a hospital janitor and maintenance person, and a brief period running a boxing gym before he entered newspaper publishing in Metro Vancouver.

Through the Reyfort Media Group, Fortaleza became publisher of the Philippine Asian News Today, a Filipino community newspaper serving the Vancouver area, and of Living Today magazine. The newspaper grew into the anchor of a small local media group: veteran Filipino-Canadian journalist Teodoro Alcuitas, who joined Philippine Asian News Today as senior editor in 2009 and stayed until late 2014, described Fortaleza as its publisher in that period, and the paper reached its 25th volume year in 2023, indicating a publishing run stretching back to the late 1990s. A sister entertainment title, Philippine Showbiz Today, covers Filipino show business and celebrity news for the same readership. Fortaleza also held a franchise for ABS-CBN's TV Patrol World news program, carried on a local Vancouver cable channel, extending the group into television.

The group has been a visible organizer in community life as well as a publisher. It supported the PNT Singing Idol competition, a Metro Vancouver singing contest run for five years, and in 2023 Fortaleza acquired the British Columbia franchise of Fiesta Extravaganza, the cross-Canada Filipino summer festival series. On February 18, 2010, Fortaleza was honoured by Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson for his Olympic and Canadian contributions, and an international Filipino association named him among its "ten most outstanding Filipino Canadians." The reyfortmedia.com website is the group's digital flagship, carrying its journalism to an online audience in the 2020s.

Content and Coverage

ReyFort Media's coverage is community journalism in the classic ethnic-media sense: it reports the institutions and arguments that shape Filipino life in Canada. A large share of its reporting follows the Philippine diplomatic presence in the country — the Philippine Consulate General in Vancouver and the Philippine Embassy in Ottawa. In September 2026, for example, the site reported historian Ambeth Ocampo's visit to the Vancouver consulate, where Consul General Gina A. Jamoralin hosted a gathering on Philippine history and heritage. In May 2026 it covered Ambassador Jose Victor V. Chan-Gonzaga's Vancouver town hall and the inauguration of the renovated Consular Hall, at which the ambassador noted that more than one million Filipinos now live in Canada.

Civic coverage is the site's other pillar. Through late 2025 it followed, in depth and from a community standpoint, the debate over a proposed Filipino cultural centre on Vancouver's Main Street — the mayor's motion, the council's decision to pause, and the competing plans of community organizations — republishing documents and letters, including an open letter to B.C. Premier David Eby, so readers could follow the dispute in full. Its regional pages carry stories such as the Migrant Workers Centre's call to reopen Canada's home care worker pilot, and solidarity campaigns at the Philippine Consulate in Toronto. Business and trade reporting features as well: in September 2026 the site covered the inaugural Philippine Trade Recognition Awards in Vancouver, honouring companies strengthening Canada–Philippines economic ties.

Alongside the news, the site runs columns and cultural features. Its "Snippet of Stories" columnist Joe Larano Jr. released a book of Filipino life journeys in British Columbia in 2026, compiled from his Philippine Asian News Today column, and the site covers Filipino entertainment figures touring North America. A trending-videos section rounds out the mix of news, opinion and show business that the group's print titles are known for.

Audience and Reach

ReyFort Media is aimed at Filipino Canadians, a community the Philippine ambassador to Canada publicly numbered at more than one million people in 2026, with British Columbia among its historic centres — Filipino settlement in the province dates to the nineteenth century, a point the ambassador himself made during his 2026 Vancouver visit. Metro Vancouver and Surrey, where the Fortaleza family lives and where much of the community is concentrated, form the outlet's home audience, but the site's regional organization — with sections for Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and the United States — shows it writes for Filipino readers across North America, including the large communities of Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Toronto.

The audience is served in English, the working language of the group's publications and of second-generation Filipino Canadians, with coverage that assumes a reader connected to both countries: consular services, immigration and migrant-worker issues, remittance-era family ties, Philippine politics and culture on one side, and Canadian municipal politics, festivals and community institutions on the other. ReyFort Media does not publish audited audience figures, and none are claimed here; its reach is best measured by the longevity of its print stablemate, which marked a quarter-century of publication in 2023, and by the group's recurring role as a media presence at consular, civic and festival events across the region.

Digital Presence

The outlet's home is reyfortmedia.com, a WordPress-style news site updated continuously, with stories dated and bylined to ReyFort Media or to individual contributors such as Fortaleza himself. The homepage leads with city and local coverage organized by province and country, a trending-videos rail, and a subscription offer inviting readers to receive the latest posts by email. Articles are frequently co-branded with the group's print titles — reports close with credits such as "Philippine Showbiz Today / ReyFort Media" — underlining that the website functions as the shared digital newsroom for the group's publications.

The site's archive shows sustained, current publishing: consular and community stories from September 2026, the trade awards and Ocampo visit among them, sit alongside its extensive coverage of the 2025 cultural centre debate and civic interviews, including a wide-ranging 2025 interview with Surrey mayor Brenda Locke conducted by ReyFort Media. Social sharing and video are built into its pages, and its stories are picked up and republished within the wider Filipino-Canadian online ecosystem, where community outlets routinely cross-post one another's reporting.

Ownership and Organisation

ReyFort Media is operated by the Reyfort Media Group, the Metro Vancouver publishing business of Rey Fortaleza, who serves as the group's chairman and as publisher of the Philippine Asian News Today and Philippine Showbiz Today. His wife, Araceli "Cely" Fortaleza, has served as business manager of the family's enterprises. The group is a family-run community publisher in the traditional mould: the publisher reports and writes for his own outlets, appears in their photographs, and represents them at consular and civic events.

The group's titles include the Philippine Asian News Today newspaper, Philippine Showbiz Today, and Living Today magazine, with the reyfortmedia.com website serving as their common online platform. Beyond publishing, the group has organized or backed community ventures including the PNT Singing Idol competition and, from 2023, the British Columbia edition of the Fiesta Extravaganza festival, acquired by Fortaleza as a franchise. The Reyfort Media Group has also been a participant in community politics and debate, sometimes controversially — its role in Filipino-Canadian organizational life has drawn criticism from rival community voices over the years — but its publishing operation has endured as one of the longest-running Filipino media businesses in Western Canada.

Contact and Availability

ReyFort Media publishes online at reyfortmedia.com, where readers can browse current and archived stories free of charge and subscribe by email for new posts. The outlet is based in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia — the Fortaleza family resides in Surrey — and its reporting centres on Vancouver, Surrey and the wider Lower Mainland, with regional coverage of Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and the United States.

The Reyfort Media Group's print titles, the Philippine Asian News Today and Philippine Showbiz Today, serve the same community in British Columbia. Enquiries are best directed through the website, where the group's journalism, videos and community coverage are published under the ReyFort Media name.