Comm faculty spearhead 2-day journalism workshop in BNHS

Tohelp budding journalists improve their skills, the communication faculty of the Department of Languages and Literature (DLL) of the Mariano Marcos

State University (MMSU) conducted a two-day Intensive Journalism Training at Batac National High School (BNHS), Bungon, City of Batac, Ilocos Norte, on October 24-25, 2022.

Called “Project COMMunity+,” the two-day training for campus press of BNHS aims to create a community of digitally connected, socially aware, and participative

Ilokano youth – that responsibly shares and disseminates information to stimulate social consciousness. Aside from this, it also aims to establish a community of students who write and report with a purpose.

The training included topics on News Writing, Copyreading, Editorial Writing, Science and Technology Writing, Editorial Cartooning, Photojournalism, Online/Digital Campus Journalism, Feature Writing, Sports Writing, and TV/Radio Broadcasting in both English and Filipino. Aside from training, a workshop was also followed where speakers got to critique the outputs of retaining Filipino and mother tongue subjects among students. Aside from being active officers of Y2C, both students are also part of the editorial board of SIRMATA, the official publication of MMSU college students. the students. Prof. John Vincent Toribio, a communication faculty who initiated Project COMMunity+, said in an interview that students, as the powerful and empowered young generations of today, write because they can go beyond winning contests; they write because they have a meaning.

“We write because this Godgiven talent has a great purpose. We write because we are an integral part of the social building,” he added.

Project COMMunity+ is a multi-sectoral, multidisciplinary, and longterm project of the BA in Communication program that will implement a series of activities over five years to ensure the project’s vision will be realized.