Filipinos were dubbed as “family-oriented, hospitable and always smiling even in times of problems.” Perhaps, it was the reason why Filipinos develop close family ties for ages. With this closeness and intimacy within the family, Filipinos have developed their own languages, that only family members could understand. Read More
Talents Association of GMA-7 (TAG) continues their firm stand for the labor case they filed against GMA Network. Read More
Journalists have been notable for gathering information, writing about a news story and sometimes interviewing people to support their information.
It is, rather, unusual for them to be interviewed themselves and be seated at the hot seat.
I happened to interview Mr. Julius Segovia, News Producer and Business reporter in GMA-7, which happened to teach me the actuality of journalism. Read More
Have you seen a “long-eared animal with a penchant for carrots?”
Have you guessed what that animal is?
Maybe you have guessed that it is a rabbit, and you are correct. It may seem quizzical and you will ask, “If all you want to ask is if I have seen a rabbit, why did you use all those words?” It is because there was circumlocution applied. Read More
The Korean drama “Pinochhio” boldly questioned what a true reporter is and showed the behind-the-scenes of the world of the news industry. Read More
Amidst the impeachment and resignation calls for President Aquino, University of Santo Tomas (UST) professors find youth involvement good, however “impulsively reacting” concerning the issue. Read More
Women have dominated the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) front page stories with an average of 56.41% of the front page stories in five consecutives days, dated March 19-23. Read More
Artlets were dismayed on the “Speak Up: Face to face with the student Council and Administration.” last Feb. 10 held by the Faculty of Arts and Letters Student Council and Administration.
The primary issue raised in the forum was the loss of funds amounting more than P50,000 last October 23, 2014 where several ABSC officers and two students were being questioned. Read More
The Faculty of Arts and Letters Administration still failed to file a scheduled date for the fact-finding session of the Student’s Welfare and Development Board (SWDB) regarding the “missing” P50,000 funds. Read More
Gaye Tuchman (1972) elucidated journalists’ notion on objectivity in reporting news by acknowledging newsmen unable to attain “objectivity”. Read More
News outlets have different protocols for choosing which stories to run, but some conventional values still determine an event’s newsworthiness. These are called Galtung and Ruge’s news values (1965), requisites a story must satisfy in order to be considered news which have been the foundation of journalists’ news judgment. Read More
Pop, rock, r&b, reggae, jazz, country –these are genres of music. Journalism, just like music, has its own genres –traditional, civic, interactive, participatory, and citizen journalism. Read More
Journalists should be decisive on fact inclusions and emphasis, sourcing and identification of the real issue (Gamson & Mordigliani, 1989) in writing a news story.
Chosen facts merge to create a frame that supports the news story structurally and determine what belongs inside it, thus articulates the focal point of the news story.
This is called news framing. Read More
News stories about crime have been omnipresent throughout the media industry for the past centuries. It comes with the mediocre flow of facts and details, thus the foundations of the structure of a summary lead-straight news story encoded in an inverted pyramid format. Police beat also serves as the usual training ground for blossoming journalists in the industry. Read More
“Baliktarin mo man ang mundo, siya pa rin ang magulang mo.”
This saying came in mind of Pamela Andrea S. Ramirez, a bonafide student of the University of Santo Tomas, when she reunited with her father last summer 2013. Read More
Our ancestors devised a way of communicating through writing by inventing Baybayin, our ancient alphabet. Later on, when the Spaniards arrived in our country, they had introduced the printing press. The means of communication and news gathering had revolutionized, and we have our internet and social media today. Read More
Let us face it. Whether people like it or not, politicians will always be featured in the news, coinciding, like the two faces of a coin –one will not be complete without the other. Read More
Think of an ice cream. There are different flavors and types of ice cream like soft ice cream and ice cream on-stick. Compare the two ice creams.
One is softer, one is more solid; one has a definite form, one has a flexible form; one is easier to eat, on is longer to consume. Read More
The “Structure of Foreign News” of Galtung and Ruge in 1965 has been the foundation of Journalism throughout the world for decades and the 12 news values–frequency, threshold, unambiguity, meaningfulness, consonance, unexpectedness, continuity, composition, reference to the elite nations, to the elite people, to persons, and to something negative –the core of every news story featured by media.
However, its validity and efficacy may now be in question –culturally determined ‘event’, its approach on its topic, the transition or paradigm shift, and the internet as medium of communication. Read More
As public figures, politicians tend to be attending several occasions all over the country and around the world.
They are inherently popular because of their social standing, being the leaders running this country. They also appear in some commercials, heard on radio interviews and watched on TV coverage.
They are also often invited by TV shows on a talk, or interviews. Nevertheless, do we get significant input or important information about them? Read More
On this day of age, people have the widest access to news in all sorts –early morning newspapers, morning and evening news, radio broadcasts, online news websites, even sometimes, in social media. However, people just know the news itself and not how it is processed. If one would go around and ask a simple Juan dela Cruz the difference between news reporting and news writing, probably, one would get a quizzical look. Read More
On the busy streets of Metro Manila, people hardly had enough time to look for news. Instead, media gives them news –whether from the radios on their car stereos, from the television of their own homes, or from the headlines on the newspaper stand on their way to work.
However, a simple Juan de la Cruz does not know the difference between events and news. Question is, what makes the event ‘news’? Read More
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