# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jose-antonio-vargas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:25:34.974Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jose-antonio-vargas"
name: "Jose Antonio Vargas"
slug: "jose-antonio-vargas"
description: "Jose Antonio Vargas is a journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist. Born in the Philippines and raised in the United States from the age of twelve, he was part of The Washington Post team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting in 2008 for coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting online and in print. Vargas has also worked for the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Daily News, and The Huffington Post. He wrote, produced, and directed the autobiographical 2013 film Documented, which CNN Films broadcast in June 2014."
tagline: "Filipino journalist, immigration activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jose_Antonio_Vargas_at_Knight_Foundation_2010_News_Challenge.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1981-02-03"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    handle:    "jav"
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    handle:    "nm3452130"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump