announcement and GROUND RULES

by: kimberly

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

August 22, 2008 (Friday), there's going to be a journalism meeting after school hours. It will be for the preparation for the upcoming Division Schools Press Conference.
Various journalists from every year level will be invited.
We are going to post the invitational memos in your designated rooms.
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we need "LETTERS TO THE EDITOR".
submit handwritten letters for the editor (well, that'd be me. lol.) regarding anything about school. you can write about suggestions, comments, basically anything.
you can either submit it to maam frias or to me.
i repeat, HANDWRITTEN LETTERS. make your handwriting neat coz we are simply going to scan the to-be-published letter and put that directly in the schoolpaper.
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english journalists of all year levels!!!!
write articles. any sort of article. whatever you want.

these are the school year's themes:
NEWS --- the news category doesnt have any theme. you think that it's a news story, write an article about it and submit.
FEATURE --- science vs religion. this is just the general theme, though. dont use it as your title.
LITERARY --- reverse fairytales. you make the protagonist look bad, the antagonist look good... you make it horror.. you make it satirical... whatever. it is literary, you just unleash your imagination. =D
SCIENCE --- astronomical advances.
SPORTS --- if you think it's a sport news, write an article and submit.
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TO THE EDITORS...

any organization has to have some rules and regulations to live by.
now, since we're journalists and free expression is something that i value (not to mention that i dislike too much authority and restrictions) i am going to set just ONE GROUND RULE.
ONE SIMPLE GROUND RULE.
and it can actually fit in a single word: RESPECT.
im not going to elaborate on that since i know that we can all understand what it means.
i hope that you're all going to take that by heart. keep that in mind. it's a fundamental rule that does not only apply to the journalism team.
it applies on real life.
everywhere.
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