Sulyap'Conducts Journalism Training in Kasan

by Elizer Penaranda Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:11 pm

SULYAP� Conducts Journalism Training
By Edward Castro

Kasan, South Korea � The Filipino EPS Workers Association (FEWA) and SULYAPINOY Editorial Staff conducted a seminar-workshop on various journalistic writing skills of Community Journalism as part of their outreach program held at Kasan, Gyeonggido last July 20.

In cooperation with the officers and volunteer members of the Kasan Migrants Community Center (KMCC), the training was designed to provide participants with the skills and knowledge to better produce news and feature articles based from the activities of the community.

KMCC President Anthony Carl Dacones welcomed FEWA President Sofonias Paragsa and The SULYAP� Team and discussed the plan of the community to reformat its current newsletter-Annyonghaseyo. �Our writer volunteers have the potential and passion in writing articles and this training would be very helpful for self-improvement as we share our God-given talents to others,� Dacones added.

FEWA and SULYAPINOY have received invitations from the community for journalism seminar though the editors are non-professional media practitioners but for eight months of providing news and relevant articles to OFWs in South Korea, they have gained support from a number of Filipino communities and civic organizations. "It�s about time to share the knowledge and this training is very relevant because Kasan is a community with many newsworthy events and activities," emphasized Maria Regina P. Arquiza, SULYAPINOY adviser, during the seminar.

More so, SULYAP� Chief Editor Elizer Penaranda mentioned the dedication of SULYAPINOY in conducting such activity as it is committed to serve the Filipino community. �The event such as this would definitely a great help to well inform the participants and we believe that they can write relevant articles about the activities here in Kasan and nearby places,� Penaranda added.

Meanwhile, Dondave Jabay, SULYAP� Managing Editor, and Edward Castro, News Editor, discussed the importance of layout and photojournalism in reformatting the newsletter to better provide readers with quality and attractive newsletter.

Sister Luz Olalia, SJBP congratulated the participants as she commended the officers and volunteers of KMCC for their usual support despite of busy schedule and work. �I hope that you would pursue what you�ve gained as soon as possible to encourage the other members of the community,� Sister Luz added.

In effect, the participants actively worked during the workshop as they competed in news, feature and cutline writing categories which were judged by the resource speakers themselves. �The seminar-workshop was an educational experience for the aspiring writers like us for we studied journalistic writing skills, a participant shared.

Among the 25 participants, the following emerged as champions on each category: Catherine Manuel, news writing (Kasan Migrant Workers Attend Journalism Seminar), Orly Tungala, feature writing (Tag-ulan sa Tag-araw) and Francis Katigbak for the writing cutlines.

by amie sison Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:57 pm

i missed this outreached program..guys we planned for the date but i was on our country...

kasan guys, the community has been a part of me as i stayed in sung-uri...sayang kaunti lang naging friends ko dyan...see you soon...

Sulyap'Conducts Journalism Training in Kasan

Sulyap'Conducts Journalism Training in Kasan

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