Comm freshie wins Pysche Week digiposter contest

Chris Jeremiah Antonio, a first-year Bachelor of Arts in Communication student, was hailed second place in the Digital Poster Contest organized by the Psyche Society on April 1, 2023.

With the theme “Breaking out of the Brine: Students Gearing towards Academic Resilience and Personal Development,” Antonio bested five other entries from different student organizations in the College of Arts and Sciences.

According to Antonio, his digital poster focused on how students who develop academic resilience and personal development are more likely to succeed academically and personally.

“By participating in the competition, I was able to showcase my creativity and passion for the topic. It also inspired me to continue exploring and promoting the idea of academic resilience and personal development [through graphic designing],” Antonio told Y2C.

The said contest is a part of the Psyche Week celebration of the student organization of the Bachelor of Science in Psychology program. Aside from the digital poster competition, a webinar, online fundraising, online liveselling, and mental wellness events were also held.

APhilippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) reporter urged communication students to still pursue truth and prioritize loyalty to the audience in the age of misinformation and disinformation and the COVID-19 pandemic in a news writing webinar on March 18. Speaking at the sixth episode of Y2Con held via Facebook Live and Zoom Conference, Mr. Nestor Corrales trained communication students about effective news and reportage, highlighting how the pandemic has changed how journalists gather and report information.

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“With the pandemic, nagbago how we cover things, how we cover events…[but] our obligation to the truth, our loyalty to the citizens [did not change],” Corrales said.

Primarily revolved around news values, effective lead writing, and news structures, Corrales encouraged students to master and apply these skills, as well as to “know your stories by heart” to write an article effectively.

“[Ngunit] napakaimportante rin na part ng story ngayon ang fact-checking, hindi lang tayo tanggap nang tanggap ng kung anong narrative ang binibigay sa atin,” he further emphasized.

(But fact-checking is already important in news writing. We should not primarily rely on what information is being said to us.)

The said webinar was attended by communication students from the university and other participants from Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College, University Northern Philippines, and Pangasinan State University. Corrales is a communication graduate from the university and currently taking his Master of Arts in Journalism at the University of the PhilippinesDiliman.