EDITORIAL

WRITING
BRIDGING EDUCATION
A BOX FOR PACQUIAO
PLUGGING THE LEAKS
EDITORIAL
 Soul of the newspaper
 Brain of the newspaper

 Opinion
NEWS VS EDITORIAL
 NEWS
Pito ang patay at siyam ang sugatan matapos sumabog ang
isang bomba sa isang mall sa Cagayan De Oro City kaninang umaga.

 EDITORIAL
Nakapanlulumong isipin na sa gitna ng ipinagmamalaki ni PNoy na
pag-modernisa sa AFP at PNP ay bigo pa rin ang mga ito na pigilin
at sugpuin ang pagbomba sa isang mall sa Cagayan de Oro City na
kumitil ng pitong katao at nag-iwan ng siyam na sugatan.
NEWS VS EDITORIAL
 NEWS
After winning the top spot in the Regional Science Quiz Bee,
Shaira Alanis Soriano is bound to Tagaytay City on February 5
to battle with the best Science whiz kids in the country

 EDITORIAL
The victory of Shaira Alanis Soriano in the Regional Science
Quiz Bee is one proof that Regional Science High School is still
the home of top Science quizzers in the region.
NEWS VS EDITORIAL
 NEWS
Upang hubugin ang kakayahan ng mga manunulat sa pamamahayag,
isinasagawa ngayon ng Luna National High School and dalawang
araw na Campus Journalism Workshop.

 EDITORIAL
Dagdag-kaalaman sa paaralang pampahayagan ang isinasagawang
Campus Journalism Workshop ngayon sa Luna National High School.
Hindi lamang nito pinaghuhusay ang kasanayan ng mga kalahok
kundi sinisiguro din nitong mamayagpag ang mga ito sa pandibisyong
komperensya.
STRUCTURE: PILLAR STRUCTURE

INTRODUCTION

BODY

CONCLUSION
HOW TO WRITE
THE TITLE?
EDITORIAL TITLES
 Green shield (National Greening Program)
 Clarion Call (DSPC’13 theme on transparent
governance
 Right investment (SHS Program)
 Ending bullying (Anti-Bullying Law)
A word or a phrase. Preferably the issue
or the solution of the problem
HOW TO WRITE THE
INTRODUCTION?
News Peg (Issue) + + Link + Reaction (Stand)

The Department of Education (DepEd) is shifting its

gears in the implementation of the Senior High
School (SHS) Program and the government has
fueled the preparation by allocating the lion’s share
of next year’s budget to the department. Such
investment will truly pay off in spades in the future.
By Clifton Gene B. Daquioag
The Excelsior Chief Editor, Champion, DSPC 2014
News Peg (Issue) + + Link + Reaction (Stand)

Bullying has been a silent menace that has plagued

many children for a very long time, but with the Anti -
Bullying Act now signed into law by President Benigno
Aquino III, schools nationwide are now empowered to
combat bullying and are given a clear picture on how
to curb the early onset of the culture of violence
among children
By Shania Vie T. Bautista
The Excelsior Chief Editor, Third Place, NSPC 2013
News Peg (Issue) + + Link + Reaction (Stand)
 The Department of Education’s K to 12 Enhanced
Basic Education Curriculum implemented this school
year is one concrete response to reverse the steady
decline of quality education in the country and to
achieve the government’s goal of long-term
educational reform and sustainable economic
growth.
By Mitzi Love C. Syjongtian
The Excelsior Chief Editor,Champion RSPC 2011
Reaction (Stand) + Link + News Peg (Issue)

It was a clarion call and its sounding is most timely. In

the observance of press conferences this year, the
Department of Education (DepEd) is tapping young
writers nationwide to strengthen the legal right of the
people to information.
By Jamaica Ramos
The Excelsior Associate Editor, Champion, DSPC 2013
BODY

 Arguments be arranged
according to the degree of
importance
 Include reaction in every
paragraph
BODY
 Background of the issue
 Presentation of the other side of the issue
 Presentation of 1st argument + facts + interpretation
 Presentation of 2nd argument + facts+ interpretation
 Presentation of 3rd argument + facts +
interpretation
 Counterproposition (proposed solution)
 Argument 1 + proof + interpretation

History tells us how the power of the press became an effective tool
towards bringing about change. From the reform movement during the
Spanish time to the third quarter storm when the Marcos regime silenced
the press and hid vital information to the people. But the voices of Ditto
Sarmiento of the Philippine Collegian and Eman Lacaba of the The Guidon
of the Ateneo de Manila University sounded the loudest echoe and
trooped student-activists to Edsa to oust the dictator. A proof that the power
of campus journalism knows no limit– it can shatter even the strongest.
 Argument 2 + testimony + interpretation

Today, their influences still ripple among us, the new generation of
campus journalists but our role has turned differently – to deliver
information that the people have the legal right to know. Education
Chief Leonor Magtolis Briones told in a press statement that this
task may be too heavy for some, but for a journalist who lives
with his mandate in RA 7079 or the Campus Journalism Act of
1991, it’s just as simple as full public disclosure of all school
transactions involving public interest to the school publications.
Counterproposition
Creating a culture of transparency, as what Secretary Briones
told, is an easy task. Rather than wasting many spaces in the
campus paper for school routine activities, a news story of an
official meeting and contract entered into by the school, an
editorial or commentary about research findings, and a three-
wide-five-inches deep article on school publication’s financial
statement, PTA expenditures, and School MOOE and local funds
expenses matter more. This is our share in strengthening people’s
right to know – too simple, yet exercises the highest form of
transparency.
STRENGTHENING THE ARGUMENTS

 Statistics
 Expert testimonies

 Evidences

 Examples

 Analogies
ENDING

 Tie up the arguments

 End it with a punch
Summary+ tie up + strike
Deped is banking so much on us in
strengthening freedom of information
and with the power of the pen, we can
simply do what is expected of us - just write
the history of a nation anchored on the
highest level of honesty and transparency.
After all, we are the nation’s builders and
our pens solidified its foundation.
Summary+ tie up + strike
The Anti -Bullying Law is more than just
words; it is a promise to every Filipino child.
It is a declaration that we will not condone
harassment, nor will we be bystanders in the
presence of intimidation. For so many
schoolchildren across the country, the law is
a lifeline. But it will remain as a law in
paper forever if we resist doing our share
in ending bullying.
Summary+ tie up + strike
The SHS program is the government’s bold step in
reversing the deteriorating trend of Philippine
educational system for the past years. With the
biggest allocation to be received by the
education department by next year, the picture
of quality Philippine education is made clearer.
It only takes DepEd to identify where the right
investment should go.
Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.
First Place Editorial Writing English, NSPC Kalibo 2006
 Introduction
It contains the The heartbreaking news of
news peg and Mariannet Amper, a 12-year old girl
the reaction. The from Maa, Davao City who, at first
absence of a reported, committed suicide for losing
reaction to an hope that her family could rise from
issue makes the wallowing in the quagmire of poverty
article not an is a glaring proof that much has to be
editorial but just done beyond what this economic growth
an essay. our government is drumbeating now.
Body Fact 1
A study of the International Food
Policy Research Institute (IFFRI)
showed that 11 million Filipinos
are among the one billion people
in the world living on less than
one dollar a day, a state which the
United Nations define as extreme
poverty.
Body Interpretation
Mariannet family’s sad plight
mirrors the real scenario of the
vast majority of the Filipino
people. The economic boom of
our country today maybe
statistically true but it is hardly
felt by those of the lower bracket
of our society.
 Body Other side of the coin
State the Good that those who are in the godly
other side seats of the government are not passing the
of the issue blame of the miserable fate of our
to observe countrymen to anybody, but themselves. It
gives us the glimmer of hope that our local
balance and national officials will stop their
and to shameful bickering and politicking and
avoid would focus not only on poverty alleviation
biases but on long term interventions to improve the
quality of life of their constituents.
 Body Fact # 2 and Arguments
Anchor your Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed that self-
rated poverty had been relatively low range from 47 to
opinion on 53 percent since September 2006, down by 6 percent
the facts from December 2005 to June 2006. This is an
presented in indication that our economy is in the right direction. But
order to sad to say, the benefits of our economy is not like the
sting of “siling labuyo” that could be easily felt by
influence everybody eating it. That is why there is a need to fast
public track the implementation of these antipoverty
opinion. programs.
 Body Fact # 3 and Arguments

Substantiate On top for the school program, the

barangay terminal, “tindahan ng bayan”,
your stand “botika ng barangay” and others, the
with facts to concerned government agencies should give
more focus on creating more jobs and
convince increasing food production such as poultry,
your readers livestock, vegetables, fisheries and other
agricultural production.
Conclusion
It presents a Unless these antipoverty programs are
solution, a sustainable, delivered efficiently and
thought- effectively and not designed for self-
provoking enrichment and “papogi” points by many
question, of our power and media-hungry “trapos”
forecast, (traditional politicians) for the next election
that we can truly say there is hope for
and possible
effects. these 11 million Filipinos, who are fighting
for survival in the street of gnawing
poverty.