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300 student editors expected
at WV College Press Awards

At least 300 student editors representing more than 50 college and university publications are expected to participate in the 38th Western Visayas College Press Awards to be held at the Business Inn in Bacolod City today.

COPRE, sponsored by the Philippine Information Agency in Western Visayas is being conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of PIA annual campus journalism program, which promotes development-oriented information dissemination and reporting.

Expected to address the student editors at the 9 a.m. opening rites is Secretary Herminio Coloma of the Presidential Communications Operations Office, with PIA Regional Director Janet Mesa giving the welcome address.

It will be the first time since 1998 for Bacolod City to host the event as it is usually held in Iloilo City.

The conference includes individual and group writing contests as well as talks on the focus of the year’s thrusts, which include media converge and eco-tourism.

Also included in this year’s awards program are the 3rd Annual Bloggers Competition through the journ.ph platform sponsored by Smart Communications Inc. and the Canadian Urban Institute’s eco-tourism writing contest.

Other major awards at stake this year are the Best Wall News, Best Literary Folio, Best High School Newsletter, Best College Newsletter, Best Multi-lingual & Mother Tongue-based Publication and Best College Newsletter.

Top Five individual writers will be recognized through on-the-spot writing competitions in English and Filipino in news, editorial, feature and sports writing, headlining and copyreading and photojournalism.

The University of St. La Salle claimed top honors in the 2011 COPRE edition with its SPECTRUM winning the best magazine award and The LEAD of the Communication Department as the Best College Newspaper and Best Departmental Publication.

Elsa Subong, COPRE Awards project officer, said both USLS publications were also declared Gawad Graciano Lopez Jaena awardees for winning the three respective categories three years in a row.

Another highlight of the one-day event is the selection of Mr. & Ms. College Press Conference.

The reigning titlists are Gerhard Pagunsan of USLS MassComm, who gave The LEAD the plum for the third time in a row, and Josefa Castro of the University of San Agustin.*

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