Education Secretary Leonor Briones challenged campus journalists - and learners in general - to always consider the matter of ethics especially at a time when journalism, honesty and integrity are “put to a test.”
Education Secretary Leonor Briones delivers her keynote speech during the opening p
With anti-terror law, red-tagged campus press struggle to report during pandemic
Apr 2, 2021 1:34 PM PHT
Jezreel InesAngel Turiano
Under the COVID-19 pandemic and the passage of the anti-terror law, the threats to campus publications take on a greater severity and pose serious challenges to student journalists reportage.
This is on top of campus publications already being subjected to attacks and suppression, even by their own school administrations. The College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) has recorded almost 1,000 violations against campus press freedom since 2010.
Heightened harassment, red-tagging
Aside from universities, student publications are among the targets of the government’s red-tagging spree, after several were described as legal fronts of the communist movement without basis.
What campus journalists can do to strengthen their role as community watchdogs
Apr 2, 2021 1:57 PM PHT
Jezreel Ines
How can campus journalists strengthen their role as community watchdogs?
At a time when disinformation is rampant on social media platforms, several journalists suggested ways for campus publications to harness their role as truth-tellers during the last day of the Caloocan Young Leaders Initiative s (CYLI) online seminar-workshop on Saturday, March 27.
While campus publications often report stories on campus issues, resource persons at the Kalookan Para sa Kampus Midya seminar-workshop showed student journalists how they can become megaphones of their respective communities as well.