Davao’s young journos hone their craft

PARTICIPANTS take a break to smile for the camera.

Photos by Karl Victor C. Sumbeling

A total of 61 participants from 14 schools in Davao City joined the third Annual Campus Journalism Workshop conducted by the Junior Chamber International (JCI) Davao chapter and the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Of the 61 participants, 44 were students in Grades 8 to 10. The rest were English teachers, many of them advisers of campus papers.

The workshop was part of activities lined up for JCI Davao’s annual Most Outstanding High School Graduate (MOHSG).

Although MOHSG was suspended because of the full implementation of senior high school, which means two additional years of basic education, 2016 JCI officers, headed by Francis de Guzman, chapter president, decided to hold the workshop to improve the skills of young campus journalists.

Karl Aoanan, JCI vice president for community, opened the workshop and introduced the resource persons, Philippine Daily Inquirer Learning section editor Chelo B. Formoso and contributing editor and columnist Linda B. Bolido.

CAMPUS journalists write their news stories on the workshop.

Formoso talked about the importance of school papers and campus journalism and feature writing. Bolido covered news writing and copy editing.

THE ONE-DAY Davao workshop covered news and feature writing and copy editing.

Shandy Michael Sy, local training director and MOHSG project chair, coordinated the workshop. Also involved in the event was Girald Ching, vice president for individual development and 2015 MOHSG project chair.

STUDENTS carefully scan the Inquirer’s front page in the game of scavenger hunt.

Sponsors of the workshop were Secure A Load, Mr. and Ms. Exel Lopez, Del Monte Philippines Inc. and Travel Best Guide.

The workshop also featured fun educational games and activities.

WORKSHOP coordinator Shandy Michael Sy (standing, left, in white shirt) joins participants in the third JCI-Inquirer campus journalism workshop in Davao in a class picture.

Workshop participant Edwina Sofia Uy Paredes is a Grade 10 student of Philippine Academy of Sakya (Davao).