Division of City schoolsCity of Manaluyong

EULOGIO RODRIGUEZ INTEGRATED SCHOOLCavo F. Sanchez St., Hagdan Bato Itaas

NARRATIVE REPORT ON 2015 SUMMER JOURNALISM WORKSHOP

In the Philippines (Alkuino, 2013), the advancement of journalism starts in the campus, from

elementary to college. It is strengthened by the implementation of the Republic Act No. 7079,

known as the Campus Journalism Act of 1991which declares that “the State shall uphold and

protect the freedom of the press even at the campus level and to promote the development and

growth of campus journalism as a means of strengthening ethical value encouraging critical and

creative thinking, and developing moral character and personal discipline of the Filipino youth.

In furtherance of RA 7079, the State shall undertake various programs and projects aimed to

promote responsible and free journalism.

The aforementioned legal basis is just one of the reasons that campus journalism should be a

part of the high school curriculum.

Just recently, Journalism (as an elective of Technology and Livelihood Education subject)

has been excluded in the Enhanced Basic Education program otherwise known as Kto12

curriculum. For this reason, the Grade 7 to Grade 9 students were no longer required to take the

Journalism subject, thus school paper advisers found it difficult to scout potential students in

campus journalism.

The following school year will be the implementation of Grade 10 of the new curriculum and

it will be a new burden for the SPA's to choose prospect student-writers considering the

aforementioned reasons. Thus, the proponents of this project is finding a way to pre-select

student journalists for the next school year.

Undeniably, Journalism Class is a laboratory of/for future professionals. Students holistic

development is honed up through the various activities conducted during division, district,

regional and national press conferences, contests, seminars, trainings by the different organizing

bodies/associations such as the Mandaluyong Association of Secondary School Paper Advisers

(MASSPA), Regional Association of Secondary School Paper Advisers (RASSPA), National

Association of School Paper Advisers (NASPA), Young Journalists Association of Mandaluyong

(YJAM), Palanca Editors' Guild, Regional Editors' Guild, National Editors' Guild, PUP Journ

Legacy, among others.

Just lately, Eulogio Rodriguez Integrated School has been included in the top five performing

schools in terms of journalism - placing 2nd runner up in Radio Broadcasting (English category)

and over-all 4th runner up in the Division Secondary Schools Press Conference and Contests

2014. That success could be a continuing legacy in terms of producing division, regional and

national winners. Thus, this project has been proposed to address the inspiring objectives of the

journalism society as a whole.

The activity aimed to discover and develop potential student-journalists. Specifically, it also

targets to impart students the basics of campus journalism, to enhance students' journalistic

writing, to develop camaraderie among student-journalists, and to encourage students to join the

campus editorial board

The activity was designed to discover and develop potential student-journalists who would be

prospect writers equipped with the following skills: basic journalistic writing skills like news

writing, feature writing, editorial writing, science writing, sports writing, copyreading and

headline writing, cartooning, photojournalism; knowledge on school paper management such as

desktop publishing and collaborative publishing; and experience in script writing and radio

broadcasting.

The activity was opened to top achievers of the class (section 1) from Grade 7 to Grade

10.

Student-participants were given lectures about the different writing categories. After

every lecture, they underwent a supervised workshops to apply what they have learned. There

was also an individual critiquing to ensure that each participant are kept on the right track.

In addition, participants were taught on how to prepare a winning campus paper wherein

they have come up with a newsletter output as part of their workshop. Furthermore, they were

also taught about news script writing leading to a radio broadcast presentation.

Finally, an awarding ceremony was conducted for the top performers in the mini press

conference held.

a. Day 1 Planning

b. Day 2 Style Sheet and News Writing – Josh/Chard

c. Day 3 News Writing (English/Filipino) – Josh/Chard

d. Day 4 Pagsulat ng Lathalain – Joan/Chard

e. Day 5 Photojourn – Maricel/Chard

f. Day 6 Editorial – Josh/Joan

g. Day 7 Intro to Radio Broadcasting - Josh

h. Day 8 Sounds of English – Maricel

i. Day 9 Radio Broadcasting Presentation

j. Day 10 –Labor Day

May 18-22, 2015 (Brigada Eskwela 2015)

k. Day 11 Copyreading/Headline Writing

l. Day 12 Sports Writing/Sports Coverage

m. Day 13 Mini-Press Conference Part I

n. Day 14 Mini-Press Conference Part II

o. Day 15 Culminating Program/Awarding Ceremony

Pictorials

I. Outputs

II. Attendance