Wednesday, July 26, 2006

300 young journalists to meet in Zambo confab

Some 300 campus journalists have pre-registered for the 2006 Zamboanga City Campus Journalists Conference to be held at the Don Pablo Lorenzo Memorial High School gym on July 29-30.
More schools are still signifying their intentions to send students for this annual campus journalists conference hosted by the Mentoring Club Inc.
Philippine Daily Inquirer’s reporter and Zamboangueno journalist Armand Dean Natividad Nocum has been invited to be the guest and resource speaker during the conference.
Nocum, who recently joined the entourage to cover the trip of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Europe particularly in Spain, has been assigned to different beats like Malacanang Palace, Defense, Courts, the Church and other government and non-government agencies.
He was with the defunct The Morning Times in Zamboanga City under the editorship of the late Rene Fernandez when he transferred to Metro Manila and joined PDI.
The 2006 Zamboanga City Campus Journalists Conference is the third annual citywide journalism conference organized by the Mentoring Club Inc., a non-government organization actively involved in the development of academic and journalistic skills of students and pupils.
Mentoring Club Inc. chairman Mr. Bong Bue said this year’s journalists conference is in coordination with the Department of Education headed by City Schools Division Office Superintendent Dr. Abdu Rahim Kenoh and DPLMHS headed by its principal Mrs. Norma Macrohon.
Participants in the conference are given lectures and orientation on campus paper works in preparation for the yearly press conference’s contests among private and public schools.
Other speakers for the coming journalists conference are Atty. Eduardo Sanson, WMSU College of Law Dean, who will lecture on “The Law on Libel”; Ms Sheila Belen Enriquez-Covarrubias of DXMR Radyo Ng Bayan and Zamboanga Today (“Newswriting is Interesting”); Mr. Jovian Diesto, associate editor of Daily Zamboanga Times, ( “Editorial Writing”); Mr. Vic Larato, editor of Zamboanga Today (“Sportswriting and Feature Writing”); Mr. Rowell Quinlob (“cartooning”); Mr. Jose Maria Bue, Daily Zamboanga Times columnist and ex-editor of Sun Star Zamboanga (“Art of Newspapering and Photo Journalism”); and Mrs. Pilar Villanueva, English supervisor of DepEd’s City Schools Division Office (“Preparing for the Press Conference”).
City Councilor Asbi Edding, a campus journalist during his college days, has been invited to give the inspirational message while Dr. Abdu Rahim Kenoh will give the opening message.
The conference is open to all private and public schools. The participants will be distributed according to elementary, secondary and tertiary levels for purposes of the in-conference contests.
Interested parties may contact Mentoring Club Inc. at mobile- 09198041780, 09193204846; e-mail: mentoring_04@yahoo.com (PRESS RELEASE)

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