The country's best campus journalists are set to gather once again in this year’s National Schools Press Conference (NSPC), the Department of Education (DepEd) on Thursday, May 4, announced.
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To be held from July 17 to 21, DepEd said that the 2023 NSPC will mark the return of physical conduct of the conference which was affected due to the restrictions brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic.
The 2023 NSPC will be hosted by Cagayan De Oro, DepEd said.
With the theme “From Campus Journalism to Real-World Journalism: Shaping Minds from Schools to Societies,” the annual schools press conference will also award outstanding school paper advisers and campus journalists.
DepEd said that the annual conference intends to demonstrate an understanding of journalism through skillful execution in various platforms (i.e., print, broadcast, online) and provide learners the opportunities to use the skills learned in campus journalism for their future careers.
2023 NSPC
DepEd noted that for this year’s NSPC, “only the top regional winner per medium will compete in the individual categories and only one team, composed of five members, per medium in the group categories. Moreover, a campus journalist can participate only in one event, either individual or group category.”
“Top 5 regional winners per medium, on the other hand, will be eligible to join the school paper category,” DepEd added.
Like in previous years, DepEd said participants would vie for individual honors in various journalistic categories such as News Writing, Features Writing, Editorial Writing, Sports Writing, Copyreading and Headline Writing, Science and Technology Writing, Photojournalism, Editorial Cartooning, and Column Writing.
DepEd added that teams from the elementary and secondary levels would also compete in Radio Script Writing and Broadcasting and Collaborative Desktop Publishing. Meanwhile, only secondary learners will take on Online Publishing and TV Script Writing and Broadcasting for the group contests.
Entries for the school paper contest would be judged based on the News Section, Features Section, Editorial Section, Science and Technology Section, Sports Section, and Layout and Page Design, DepEd said.
Meanwhile, DepEd noted that mobile journalism --- which is set to be an added category in the next few years --- will be “introduced in a concurrent session” to be attended by 10 secondary campus journalists (five in English, five in Filipino) and ten school paper advisers from each region.