IMUS CITY, Cavite – Four campus journalists and a school paper adviser from Cavite and Laguna, who won the sports writing category during the 2018 National Schools Press Conference (NSPC), will participate in the 2018 “Palarong Pambansa” Sports Journalism Seminar and Coverage in Vigan, Ilocos Sur this month.
In a Regional Memorandum released to the PNA on Tuesday, Director IV Diosdado M. San Antonio “highly recommends” the participation of Louis Benedict Sison from St. Jerome Integrated School in Cabuyao, Laguna, who emerged the Top 4 in Sports Writing Elementary – English; Carl Josua Doria from Laguna’s Liliw National High School – the top 3 in Sports Writing Secondary – Filipino; Top 3 Photojournalism in Secondary-English winner Francine Kyle Yacat of St. Michael’s College in Biñan; and Key Angely Ferrer of Tanza Trade National High School in Cavite, who won the top 1 slot in the Feature Writing in Secondary-Filipino category.
The Calabarzon delegation includes Pedro Bonayon Jr. of San Miguel Elementary School in Dasmariñas City, Cavite who took home the Most Outstanding School Paper Adviser –Elementary during the 2018 NSPC held in Dumaguete City.
The delegation will participate in the Journalism Seminar slated on April 13 and will experience hands-on coverage of the national schools’ sports competition from April 15 to 21.
The memorandum is in response to DepEd Assistant Secretary G.H. S. Ambat’s request for the student-journalists’ participation to establish camaraderie among the regional delegation.
The actual media coverage experience by these young campus journalists will also promote and sustain the advocacy of the 2018 Palarong Pambasa; provide a venue for an enriching learning experience for students interested in sports journalism; and to give them a better edge in their chosen careers.
The activity also aims to promote responsible sports journalism, the fair and ethical use of social media and to enhance the journalistic competence of the delegates through hands-on-experience and mentorship.
DepEd’s Communications Division, Public Affairs Service will conduct the seminar, in collaboration with the Philippine Sports Commission, as part of the education department’s curricular program to develop and promote campus journalism as provided for in Republic Act 7079 or the “Campus Journalism Act of 1991.” (Gladys Pino/PNA)
