Campus Journalism Training, Students` Writing Skills and the Status of the Official Student Publication in English

F.S. Albino¹

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.7 , Issue.9 , pp.22-28, Sep-2021

Online published on Sep 30, 2021

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Abstract :
The study aimed to determine the effect of a Five-Day Intensive Training on Campus Journalism on the staffers` journalistic writing skills and status of the student publication of Subic National High School for the current year, the School Year 2019-2020. There were fifteen (15) student-journalists who undergo the five-day intensive training and three hundred ninety-four (394) selected stakeholders of the school who evaluated the status of the student publication. The student-journalists perceived that the result of the intensive training significantly improved their journalistic writing skills. The study proved that the level of journalistic writing skills of the staffers was improved from the pre to post-evaluations that attained an advanced proficiency level in terms of headline writing and copy reading, news writing, feature writing, sports writing, photojournalism, and editorial writing Findings revealed that there was a significant change in the status of The Reporter after the five-day intensive training which proved that the staffers acquire necessary skill and improved their journalistic writing skills. Based on the results gained, the researcher concluded that the conduct of the intensive training on campus journalism has a positive effect on the journalistic writing skills of the staffers that will consequently result in an improved school paper.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Campus Journalism, School Paper, Training, Writing Skills

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