Newsroom & Masthead
Who makes Saigon Sentinel
Editorial leadership
Saigon Sentinel is a small, independent newsroom that pairs human editorial judgment with AI-assisted reporting. The Editor-in-Chief sets the standards every article must meet — enforced by automated originality, citation, and fact-grounding checks — reviews each piece before publication, audits published output, and handles corrections. We disclose AI involvement openly on our editorial policy and methodology pages.
Bảo Nguyễn
Editor-in-Chief & Founder
Bảo Nguyễn founded Saigon Sentinel to give the Vietnamese diaspora truly independent, in-depth community coverage at a time when misinformation moves faster than fact-checks and the language barrier makes verification harder than it should be. He sets the editorial standards and quality controls that govern the AI-assisted reporting, reviews each article before publication, audits published output, and handles corrections.
Contact: [email protected]
AI personas in our coverage
We use AI tools to help draft, translate, illustrate, and narrate articles. When an AI persona appears in the product — for example as a narrator — we label it as such so readers always know what they're hearing.
Hoài Trang
AI Radio Host (synthesized voice)
Hoài Trang is the AI persona that narrates our Vietnamese-language audio briefings. Every script she reads is drawn from a published Saigon Sentinel article that has passed our automated quality checks.
Contributors & correspondents
Saigon Sentinel welcomes pitches from Vietnamese-American writers, photographers, and community correspondents — especially on stories from Houston, Northern and Southern California, and other diaspora hubs. Reach the editor at [email protected].