PIA-6 launches ‘Campus Journ Convos’

The Philippine Information Agency (PIA) in Western Visayas has kicked off Tuesday, a new initiative to uphold development communication in campus journalism amid the pandemic.

Dubbed “Campus Journ Convos”, this series of webinars is part of the agency’s campus journalism program which seeks to sustain development communication initiatives for campus paper writers, editors, and advisers in Region 6.

Jemin B. Guillermo, PIA-6 OIC Regional Head, said that during this pandemic, PIA-6 has introduced this innovation in order to continue providing campus publications their needed training through virtual and social media platforms.

“This is the ‘new normal’ trend of capacitating our student writers, whom we consider as those who have greater role of molding our society, being empowered communicators,” she said.

She said PIA-6, for a number of decades already, has been there to help students not only as good writers and advocates of government programs, projects, and policies, but also as good leaders in their respective line of work, organization, and community.

“Thorough campus journalism, these young student writers and editors have become major key players in the societal transformation, being trained as development communicators,” she said.

Meanwhile, the “Campus Journ Convos”, which will be conducted weekly/semi-weekly, will tackle different modules on campus journalism.

The modules include development communication, news writing, feature writing, editorial and opinion articles, sports writing, page design and online publications, trends in online writing, and photojournalism.

Specials topics on public health and the whole-of-nation approach in attaining inclusive and sustainable peace and development will also be tackled in the scheduled sessions.

PIA-6 has tapped communication professionals, media practitioners, and notable professors from the academe who shall serve as resource speakers during the sessions.

These sessions are conducted through the Zoom platform and are also streamed through the agency’s Facebook page, on FB Live. (PIA)