Garcia Hernandez opens 

PIA ’18 journ workshop 

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol June 23 (PIA)—The struggle to build a stronger newswriting foundation for secondary students continues as the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) in Bohol opens its school year 2018-2019 journalism workshops to Garcia Hernandez students. 

Last June 11, secondary students from Garcia Hernandez High School: the private high school Saint John the Baptist Academy, Cambuyo High School, Tabu-an High School, and Garcia Hernandez converged at the GHHS for a day long orientation of the upcoming SCOOPS workshop. 

According to school paper adviser John McRae Racines, they have been on the look-out for credible trainers for their campus journalists and found the PIA free workshops. 

The PIA in Bohol meanwhile, have been developing modules for campus journalism as a method to get to students and train them into better and more responsible journalists in the future. 

Journalism and media works have not been a popular course for Bohol media workers, only very few who write here are developmental communication graduates, much less journalism students. 

And while there are very few journalism graduates in Bohol, most of them do not go for the profession, which has been populated by practitioners who have sworn to be honed by decades or years of experience. 

The outputs however are less than desirable, readers who know and keep the standards of journalism high note. 

And the fact the very few people care about the standards, the result is degrading that the accusations of imbalanced, unfair and fake news surfaced. 

It is usually the absence of more details, information that can be obtained by careful discipline and the hard interviewing and research work which modern day writers simply shy off for the convenient desktop research, PIA through its training team said. 

Nothing beats a trained journalist who has not been adulterated by a hint of attack-collect, defend- collect, PIA workshop partner and veteran journalist Ric Obedencio adds. 

Seeing these, the decision to start off by teaching student writers while young was a no brainer, according to the PIA. 

Over the years, the PIA SCOOPS workshop has gone through several schools, and has breached out of Bohol to nearby island with Siquijor Department of Education as organizer. 

SCOOPS is also set to get to Ubay next week. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol) 

Students of Garcia Hernandez opened up the portals of 2018 PIA SCOOPS journalism Training workshops, an line with the government effort to fight off fake news due to poor haphazard reportage. (RAHC/pia-7/Bohol)