Management Plan in Campus Journalism for Secondary Schools

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Campus journalism is an essential part of every educational institution as it provides an avenue for the journalistic training of the students, creates links with the community, and informs the students and other readers of significant happenings in the school. Despite its advantages, campus journalism seems to be neglected in schools and its aims are hardly obtained. This research focused on the implementation of campus journalism covering three major areas: structure, logistical support, and staff development in three divisions in Region IV-A CALABARZON: Cavite, Batangas, and Laguna. It also surveyed the profile of the school publication advisers and the student journalists from secondary schools in the aforementioned divisions, the respondents of the study. In the same manner,issues and challenges as to the implementation of campus journalism were also determined in this study.

METHODS

This study made use of descriptive quantitative-qualitative method of research. A researcher-made questionnaire was the main instrument used in data gathering. This was supplemented by interview and focus group discussion to substantiate the findings of the study. Respondents of the study were 158 school publication advisers and 335 student journalists in the mentioned divisions.

RESULTS

It was found that campus journalism program was not fully implemented. Also, the profile of the student-journalists and school paper advisers had an impact on the implementation of campus journalism program in the region. The respondents agreed that there was a need for more training in campus journalism. Likewise, there were also issues on funding and censorship. Based on the findings, the researcher developed a plan which could be utilized by schools in their implementation of campus journalism program. In the plan, specific strategies which could address the issues and challenges in the implementation of campus journalism were suggested.

DISCUSSIONS

From the gathered data, it was found that there is need for the enhancement of the implementation of campus journalism program in the region in general. There were some areas such as the logistics support and staff development which need to be enhanced.