Definition of Terms

A. Editorial Board - IN the tertiary level, the board shall be composed of student journalist who have
qualified in placement examinations or and staff members of the student publication concerned.

Faculty adviser -the editor who qualified and a representative of the parents -teachers association,
who will determine the editorial policies of the paper.

May include publication adviser

B. Editorial policies - a set of guidelines by which a student publication is operated and managed
taking into account pertinent laws and guidelines as well as school admin policies. Said guidelines
shall determine the frequency of publication.

Student Publication - student body through an editorial board and publication staff composed of
students selected by fair and competitive examinations. Once publication is established, its editorial
board shall freely determine its editorial policies and manage the publication funds.

Funding - for the student pub may include the savings of the respective school’s appropriations,
student subscription, donations and other sources of funds. In no instance shall the Deped or the
school administration concerned withhold the release of funds sourced from the savings of the
appropriations of the respective school and other sources intended for student publication.

Subscriptions fees collected by the school administration shall be released automatically to the
student publication concerned.

Publication adviser - shall be selected by the school administrator from a list of recommended
submitted by the pub staff. The function of the adviser shall be limited to one of technical guidance.

Security of tenure - a member of the publication staff must maintain his or her status as student in
order to retain membership in the publication staff. A student shall not be expelled or suspended
solely on the basis of articles he or she has written.

Press conference and training seminars

The department of education. Culture and sports shall sponsor periodical competitions, press
conference and training seminars in which students, editors/writers and teacher advisers of student
publication in the elementary, secondary and Tertiary levels shall be held at the institutional,
divisional and regional levels culmination with the holding of the annual national elementary,
secondary and tertiary school press conferences in the places of historical and or cultural interest in
the country.

Rules and Regulations

The Department of Education, Culture and Sports in coordination with the officers of the National
elementary, secondary
Tax exemption

All grants, endowments, donations or contributions used actually

Guidelines of the NSPC

Sports section at least 2 pages. The least that you can do is at least 12 pages

Science and Technology at least 2 pages feature or scientific commentary style ( well researched and
citations for pictures)

Layout and page design category

Combination of balance, community and school, national or international events.

School paper should be glossy

NEwspaper section - Editorial section - Feature section (3) - Sports - Science and Technology - Layout
and Design Category ( national standards)

Number of pages minimum of

Content issues for original standards

Production of Content Issue

Deped standards

A school paper should:

Exhibit balance in terms of content

Use facts from different sources

Cite sources to ensure crediblity

Apply the principles of basic journalism

Provide balance of light and serious topic

News page

Arrange stories in decreasing importance

Use clear and properly cited pictures of graphs

Observe proper grammar and style

Observe principles of basic journalism and ethics (cite sources and avoid plagiarism)
An event that possibly happened a day of two before your paper hits the press or printing machine

Inverted pyramid structure most important part of the story comes first.

Questions: Do you have opportunities for news stories in your school paper?

News page article ideas

Teacher and students high school tracks satisfaction rate

Bayanihan

Most challenging subjects but with intervention

Different opinions on drug testing of students

Survey on how much allowance students get from their parents.

Most popular website students use for academic purposes

Teacher’s insights into certain Deped policies specially those publicly pronounced by the Deped
secretary

Progressive articles like putting up of schools, building of bridges, fences and other facilities that have
direct impact on the school community.

Average sleeping hours of students on weekdays.

Community ordinances that have direct effect on the school

Partnership with the outside community

Nutritional status of students

Faculty profile in terms of academic degree relate this to education quality

Survey artile on students course preferences

Parents manner of disciplining their children or rules over internet use or inline games

Feature page

Offers you more creativity - allows you to write an engaging lead rather than bog you down with a
straitlaced news sentence.

Can compromise long form storytelling/student profiles/staff profiles an ongoing issue in the school

Profile features

Low profile yet overachieving student

Trustworthy pedicab drivers serving student and school staff

Human interet stories such as hobbies, successes and breakthroughs

Informative feature
Why students need more sleep

How a curriculum must be student-centered

Grand activities like the world teacher’s day in Legazpi.

How to feature

How to stay healthy in an urban settings

Overcome shyness

How to spend your daily allowance wisely

Trend features - Popular culture (music and movies)

Emojis and how they may conceal true emotion

Creatively coined words ( how they affect our sensibilities)

Editorial page -

Feature writing is the most exciting of all. You can display emotions rather than straight facts

- provides info about an event, idea or situation.

In a newspaper it is in the LIFESTYLE section. Usually it is segmented per day (monday arts then
Tuesday wellness then Wednesday HOME)

In depth look at news, more emotions from the people involved.

Personality features - presidents to farmers. It can be even your family members or friends.

Historical/ cultural features -about heritage or cultural appreciation

Business features - successful business enterprisers or companies to give back to communities.

Entertainment features - About showbiz, film, television

Travel features - Now destinations, trips, tips, experiences during exploring

Seasonal events/features - Occasions

How to’s features - guides, tips and recipes, etc.

Just ask this question. . .

WHAT IS INTERESTING?????????

Introduction, Body, Conclusion at the end of the day, it should be an EASY READ.

LEADS - the opening sentence must grab the reader’s attention by using specific, interest- arousing
words?
1. Can be and often are longer than one sentence

2. Your chance to grab readers attentions

3. Should be specific to your story

4. Should be be filled with cliches

5. Should be in third person

6. Must fit the mood or tone of the story

A few types of leads

Narrative, descriptive, direct quote, startling statement, contrast and compare, twist.

Writing devices for leads

Repetition, short punchy stentences, using dialogue, Mixing sentence length to set a rhyth, break the
rules starting with “And”; it should be from specific to general

G reat

Q uote

S trong lead

T ransition

U Unique Angle

D escription -show don’t tell

D detail