DAGUPAN CITY – The city, in partnership with the Department of
Education (DepEd), will hold a three-day Children Summit on Journalism
for elementary and high school students in the public and private schools
on January 29 to 31.
The summit, which will be facilitated by the DepEd with Schools
Division Superintendent Lorna Bugayong as chairman, is open to high school and
senior students from public and private schools and to Grades IV and V in the
elementary level.
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| A Filipino teacher conducts a campus journalism training among highschool students. |
Education Program Supervisor Dr. Liezl Cancino disclosed that the
summit committee has invited top notch journalists, broadcasters and television
news personalities in the country and in the region including Presidential
Communications Secretary Martin Andanar and Director Florinda Princess Duque,
both from the Presidential Communication Operations Office, as speakers and
lecturers in the three-day summit.
Representative Christopher De Venecia of the fourth district of
Pangasinan who is himself a journalist being a Young Star columnist of The
Philippine STAR and Chalk Magazine Lifestyle editor, is the keynote speaker.
Al S. Mendoza, former Sports Editor of the Inquirer and who now writes
for Business Mirror and The Sunday Punch, will give his lecture on Sports
writing while Kara David and Mariz Umali, both from GMA Network News and
popular annotator and broadcast journalists are also expected to share
their knowledge and talents to the participants in the three-day summit, which
will be held at CSI Stadia in Lucao District. Other invited speakers belong to
the academe.
Among the topics proposed to be discussed by the lecturers and speaker
will deal mostly on news gathering, editorial writing, feature writing, science
and technology writing, photojournalism, editorial cartooning, script writing
and radio broadcasting, copy reading and headline writing, scriptwriting and TV
news casting, collaborative desktop publishing, sports viewing and writing.
The local media practitioners who will also share their talents and
knowledge include Eva Visperas, reporter, The Philippine Star; Gabriel ‘Ging’
Cardinoza, reporter, Philippine Daily Inquirer; Willie Lomibao, photo
journalist, Philippine Daily Inquirer; Rhee Fer Hortaleza, veteran journalist
and broadcaster, and others who will act as judges in broadcasting like Violy
Ferrer, DWCM Station Manager, Michelle Soriano of ABS-CBN Dagupan, Alfie
Tulagan and CJ Torida of Balitang Amianan.
The Children Summit is initiated by Mayor Belen T. Fernandez and is
held every year focusing on different topics like health, music and for this
year on journalism.
Fernandez said she wants to harness the skills of students in the field
of journalism as Dagupan City is also the center of media industry in
Pangasinan. (Joseph C. Bacani/CIO)
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