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Manila Bulletin, UST Hold Journalism Forum
Manila Bulletin – Thu, Feb 7, 2013
MANILA, Philippines --- Manila Bulletin, the Philippines' leading national newspaper, reached out to young, aspiring Thomasian journalists last Wednesday through a collaborative journalism workshop held at the Civil Law Auditorium of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila.
Dubbed the "Manila Bulletin Campus Journalism Forum Goes To UST!," the five-hour gathering had around 200 students, mostly Journalism majors from the university's Faculty of Arts and Letters, listening to Manila Bulletin's esteemed editors as they imparted their insights on a variety of topics that anchored on the significance of traditional media in the age of technology.
"We are excited to develop a stronger bond between Manila Bulletin and the University through the Office of Public Affairs. We'd like to keep the music playing between UST and the Manila Bulletin," said Office of Public Affairs Director Associate Professor Giovanna Fontanilla in her opening remarks, as she welcomed guests and participants to the forum.
Fontanilla expressed her gratitude to Manila Bulletin for coming up with the idea of having a campus journalism forum, which she thinks would help improve journalism students and members of the school publications' staff in their writing skills.
Tech News Editor Arturo "Art" Samaniego Jr. tackled "New Media vs Traditional Media: Which is more effective?" while Desk Editor Nathaniel "Nate" Barretto discussed "Creating Enough Content for Media: Tips On Making a Blog Fail Or Succeed."
"I believe that traditional media has no conflict with new media," said Samaniego during his talk. "The relation would be more like software update or your house being improved as the need arises."
Answering the question "Is the newspaper still relevant in the age of technology?" Samaniego offered his own take on the issue: "Yes, as long as these newspaper would not insist on their roles as 'bringer' of news."
He also exhorted aspiring journalists from among the students to stick to the core of journalism, which is to "tell the truth."
Barretto, on the other hand, advised would-be bloggers to ensure that they can be identified with what they write.
"Stick to what you know, and you must have a stand. Your blog must also have comments, 'like' and 'dislike' [mechanism] to empower your site visitors," Barretto said.
Thomasians were all excited and grateful about this event, with even a faculty member saying that it was of great help to their students and moderators of student's publication in the campus.
"It has been very helpful para sa mga katulad kong campus journalist... It's always a struggle to catch the attention of the students and because of this forum, naging mas marketable 'yong campus media tulad ng mga ginagawa namin as campus journalists para sa mga estudyanteng katulad ko," said Vinci Ross Villanueva, 2nd year Civil Engineering student and the Literary Opinions Editor of the Thomasian Engineering organ.
"Ngayon ko lang nalaman na mahirap pala talaga 'yong online kasi dati iniisip ko parang kung ano lang 'yong pinapakita sa print media, ganon lang din 'yung sa online pero hindi pala. In online, mas mahirap kunin 'yong attention ng readers kaysa sa print media na tracked mo by layouts and pictures," said Romina Cabrera, 3rd year Journalism student.
"The insights that were shared by the speakers this morning, especially that they are Thomasians and they have been working with the Manila Bulletin for quite a long time, are great, which our students could learn from," Faculty of Arts and Letters Secretary Crescencio Doma Jr. said "Indeed, the new media that we have now or the social media as utilized by the netizens post a great challenge to writers and aspiring journalists."
Other Bulletin editors who shared their knowledge and expertise in the forum's afternoon session were Night Editor Miguel Jaime Ongpin ("A Case Study On Social Media") and External Affairs Head Barbie Atienza ("Why Print Is Here To Stay?").
Source: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/manila-bulletin-ust-hold-journalism-forum-110702690.html
Dubbed the "Manila Bulletin Campus Journalism Forum Goes To UST!," the five-hour gathering had around 200 students, mostly Journalism majors from the university's Faculty of Arts and Letters, listening to Manila Bulletin's esteemed editors as they imparted their insights on a variety of topics that anchored on the significance of traditional media in the age of technology.
"We are excited to develop a stronger bond between Manila Bulletin and the University through the Office of Public Affairs. We'd like to keep the music playing between UST and the Manila Bulletin," said Office of Public Affairs Director Associate Professor Giovanna Fontanilla in her opening remarks, as she welcomed guests and participants to the forum.
Fontanilla expressed her gratitude to Manila Bulletin for coming up with the idea of having a campus journalism forum, which she thinks would help improve journalism students and members of the school publications' staff in their writing skills.
Tech News Editor Arturo "Art" Samaniego Jr. tackled "New Media vs Traditional Media: Which is more effective?" while Desk Editor Nathaniel "Nate" Barretto discussed "Creating Enough Content for Media: Tips On Making a Blog Fail Or Succeed."
"I believe that traditional media has no conflict with new media," said Samaniego during his talk. "The relation would be more like software update or your house being improved as the need arises."
Answering the question "Is the newspaper still relevant in the age of technology?" Samaniego offered his own take on the issue: "Yes, as long as these newspaper would not insist on their roles as 'bringer' of news."
He also exhorted aspiring journalists from among the students to stick to the core of journalism, which is to "tell the truth."
Barretto, on the other hand, advised would-be bloggers to ensure that they can be identified with what they write.
"Stick to what you know, and you must have a stand. Your blog must also have comments, 'like' and 'dislike' [mechanism] to empower your site visitors," Barretto said.
Thomasians were all excited and grateful about this event, with even a faculty member saying that it was of great help to their students and moderators of student's publication in the campus.
"It has been very helpful para sa mga katulad kong campus journalist... It's always a struggle to catch the attention of the students and because of this forum, naging mas marketable 'yong campus media tulad ng mga ginagawa namin as campus journalists para sa mga estudyanteng katulad ko," said Vinci Ross Villanueva, 2nd year Civil Engineering student and the Literary Opinions Editor of the Thomasian Engineering organ.
"Ngayon ko lang nalaman na mahirap pala talaga 'yong online kasi dati iniisip ko parang kung ano lang 'yong pinapakita sa print media, ganon lang din 'yung sa online pero hindi pala. In online, mas mahirap kunin 'yong attention ng readers kaysa sa print media na tracked mo by layouts and pictures," said Romina Cabrera, 3rd year Journalism student.
"The insights that were shared by the speakers this morning, especially that they are Thomasians and they have been working with the Manila Bulletin for quite a long time, are great, which our students could learn from," Faculty of Arts and Letters Secretary Crescencio Doma Jr. said "Indeed, the new media that we have now or the social media as utilized by the netizens post a great challenge to writers and aspiring journalists."
Other Bulletin editors who shared their knowledge and expertise in the forum's afternoon session were Night Editor Miguel Jaime Ongpin ("A Case Study On Social Media") and External Affairs Head Barbie Atienza ("Why Print Is Here To Stay?").
Source: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/manila-bulletin-ust-hold-journalism-forum-110702690.html
DepEd info officers attend 2-week TMTC media training
The Manila Times College (TMTC), in partnership with The Manila Times, has launched the first in a series of journalism training workshops for information officers of government agencies, starting off with 17 representatives from the Department of Education (DepEd) and 18 journalism students and campus editors from four universities.
The 15-day training-seminar workshop that began on January 15 at the TMTC training room in Intramuros, Manila, aims to help information officers and aspiring journalists write publishable news and feature stories, organize press conferences, effectively deal with the news media and create favorable public image for their agencies or clients.
Junior and senior journalism students of TMTC, Malabon University, Philippine Christian University and representatives of the Emilio Aguinaldo College, are also part of the course that involves practical exercises in perfecting the usage of the English language, writing news and feature stories, editorial and opinion writing.
According to Dr. Isagani R. Cruz, president of TMTC, the DepEd regional information officers are given practical training by seasoned journalists who are either part of the Times College faculty, or senior editors and news producers from private media organizations.
Among the resource persons are Rigoberto Tiglao, who was recently appointed the college dean and columnist of The Manila Times and former ambassador to Greece and Cyprus; Ricardo Saludo, managing director of the Center for Strategy, Enterprise and Intelligence and a columnist at the Times; Rene Q. Bas, Times editor in chief; Beting Laygo Dolor, Times managing editor; Conrad Cariño, Times business editor; Emeterio Sd. Perez, Times columnist and market analyst.
Sharing their expertise and rich experience in the private media are Mike Enriquez, senior vice president for radio and news anchor of GMA 7 and dzBB; Tony Lopez, publisher-editor of BizNews Asia weekly newsmagazine; Vicky Robles, TV5 news producer; Ibarra Mateo, freelance editor, writer and researcher; Jimmy Domingo, freelance photojournalist and photojournalism instructor at the Ateneo de Manila University and the De La Salle University; Jaemark Tordecilla, managing editor of InterAKTV.ph of TV5; and Ed Lingao, multimedia director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism.
The participants will also be trained to write news like real journalists, using proper techniques on news gathering, news writing, editing and proofreading.
Likewise, they are given tips and techniques in organizing press conferences and writing press releases, opinion and editorial writing, business writing and writing news for radio and TV.
“After completing the course, DepEd’s regional information officers who are participating in the workshop will become better writers and will be equipped with simple but effective tools in disseminating information to the public,” Dr. Cruz said.
“DepEd is one of the biggest agencies of the Philippine government and it is important that programs of the department are effectively disseminated to the public on a regional level,” he added.
TMTC Training Coordinator Tita C. Valderama said that the school is offering the comprehensive and intensive training course on effective communications to private corporations and government agencies. Source: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/news/top-stories/39865-deped-info-officers-attend-2-week-tmtc-media-training
The 15-day training-seminar workshop that began on January 15 at the TMTC training room in Intramuros, Manila, aims to help information officers and aspiring journalists write publishable news and feature stories, organize press conferences, effectively deal with the news media and create favorable public image for their agencies or clients.
Junior and senior journalism students of TMTC, Malabon University, Philippine Christian University and representatives of the Emilio Aguinaldo College, are also part of the course that involves practical exercises in perfecting the usage of the English language, writing news and feature stories, editorial and opinion writing.
According to Dr. Isagani R. Cruz, president of TMTC, the DepEd regional information officers are given practical training by seasoned journalists who are either part of the Times College faculty, or senior editors and news producers from private media organizations.
Among the resource persons are Rigoberto Tiglao, who was recently appointed the college dean and columnist of The Manila Times and former ambassador to Greece and Cyprus; Ricardo Saludo, managing director of the Center for Strategy, Enterprise and Intelligence and a columnist at the Times; Rene Q. Bas, Times editor in chief; Beting Laygo Dolor, Times managing editor; Conrad Cariño, Times business editor; Emeterio Sd. Perez, Times columnist and market analyst.
Sharing their expertise and rich experience in the private media are Mike Enriquez, senior vice president for radio and news anchor of GMA 7 and dzBB; Tony Lopez, publisher-editor of BizNews Asia weekly newsmagazine; Vicky Robles, TV5 news producer; Ibarra Mateo, freelance editor, writer and researcher; Jimmy Domingo, freelance photojournalist and photojournalism instructor at the Ateneo de Manila University and the De La Salle University; Jaemark Tordecilla, managing editor of InterAKTV.ph of TV5; and Ed Lingao, multimedia director of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism.
The participants will also be trained to write news like real journalists, using proper techniques on news gathering, news writing, editing and proofreading.
Likewise, they are given tips and techniques in organizing press conferences and writing press releases, opinion and editorial writing, business writing and writing news for radio and TV.
“After completing the course, DepEd’s regional information officers who are participating in the workshop will become better writers and will be equipped with simple but effective tools in disseminating information to the public,” Dr. Cruz said.
“DepEd is one of the biggest agencies of the Philippine government and it is important that programs of the department are effectively disseminated to the public on a regional level,” he added.
TMTC Training Coordinator Tita C. Valderama said that the school is offering the comprehensive and intensive training course on effective communications to private corporations and government agencies. Source: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/news/top-stories/39865-deped-info-officers-attend-2-week-tmtc-media-training
Journalism students learn ethics through online case study
Feb. 8, 2013
by Stacy Forster
You're a college student working for a news service, and your editor asks you to check out a breaking-news situation.
You head to the scene, where you learn a teen singing sensation, Caitlyn Isaac, may have overdosed at her hotel following a concert.
What do you do? Who do you interview? And when do you know you've got a story ready to go?
Students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication's J202: Mass Media Practices course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found themselves in this hypothetical reporter's shoes, working through a series of ethical questions involved in the news gathering situation by way of an online case-study module.
The situational case study, presented in a "choose your own adventure" style format, is an example of how faculty and teaching staff across the UW campus are using technology to enhance students' learning experiences.
"We know how to teach them to write a lead [to a news story], but it's hard to approximate getting them to think on their feet and evaluate sources of information," says Michael Mirer, the lead teaching assistant for J202 this spring, who used the case-study scenario in class last semester.
A campuswide effort called Educational Innovation is prompting the development of new and different ways of teaching. While some of that involves top-to-bottom changes to programs or classes, many faculty and teaching staff find smaller-scale exercises such as the journalism case study can be just as enriching.
The module was developed by Katy Culver, assistant professor of journalism and mass communication, with Mitchell Bard, the lead teaching assistant in the fall semester, and a team from the Division of Information Technology(DoIT), led by Ron Cramer, senior learning technology consultant within DoIT's Academic Technology group.
Students used the journalism case-study module for the first time in the fall semester. In past semesters, they would have read about a real-life case study and discussed it in a lab for the course.
The situational case study, presented in a "choose your own adventure" style format, is an example of how faculty and teaching staff across the UW campus are using technology to enhance students’ learning experiences.
"There was nothing wrong with those discussions, but I don't really know if they stuck, because the students hadn't gone through the reasoning," Culver says.
Throughout the reporting scenario, students meet different people to interview and make decisions about what path is most likely to produce a solid story. For example, talking to bartenders and hotel workers leads students down a dead end without reliable information, but conversations with the hotel manager and the police public relations officer put the reporter on the right path.
At the same time, the reporter's editor is sending text messages that demand a story as soon as possible. Students learn not only about the deadline pressure of journalism, but also about the reporter's responsibility to decide when there's enough information to publish a credible story.
"I liked talking about it this way. 'When do you go with it? When do you have enough? When are you confident you have the truth?' Sometimes it's OK not to report — sometimes you don't have it," Mirer says.
Culver has developed a range of blended learning activities for J202 to maximize students' time in and out of class, and earlier this year she approached DoIT Academic Technology about developing a situated learning experience.
Cramer suggested using DoIT Academic Technology's "Case Scenario/Critical Reader" tool.
"When I saw it for the first time in the summer, the example was for medical students — you're a gynecology resident and the woman presents with this or that," Bard says. "What could be more different than what we're doing? But it was immediately obvious that this would work for us."
The idea for the journalism case study, which takes about 15 minutes for students to complete, started on one sheet of paper with Culver and Bard's initial ideas for what might work. The story expanded to bigger sheets of paper and an elaborate backstory the pair developed, even as they resisted the urge to broaden the exercise.
And to be compelling, the scenario also needed to follow a design framework developed by DoIT Academic Technology called "the seven Cs": content, context, challenge, characters, choices, consequences and connections.
"The biggest challenge is getting all pieces into something that's a cohesive narrative and meets the learning objective," Cramer says.
People who are interested in developing a situational-case scenario can contact DoIT Academic Technology to learn more, Cramer says.
Source:http://www.news.wisc.edu/21481