This document provides coaching strategies and potential topics for campus journalists. It identifies relevant topics like depression, studies on teenagers' sleep difficulties, and statistics that can be used in editorials, science-technology, features, and sports articles. It recommends citing titles of studies and reports to avoid plagiarism. Suggested information sources include news programs, newspapers, and online sources. Common topics are then outlined like the press conference theme on empowering resilient communities through campus journalism. Potential article types on these topics are identified as argumentative or informative editorials. Coaching strategies suggested include exposing students to reading materials, composing features on learners/gadgets, elections, teachers, and TV shows. Potential science-technology topics are

1. COACHING
Strategie
s
GRACIA RODEL B. DELORIA
NOSPAA PRESIDENT
Chief Trainer

2. OBJECTIVES
• Identify relevant topics that can
possibly come out in the contest.
• Manage given information for proper
coaching.
• Show commitment in producing
quality campus journalists.

3. BASIC INFORMATION
1. Categories may differ but the
topics that will be soon
discussed are applicable to all.
Example: DEPRESSION
This can both be in Sc-Tech,
Feature and Editorial.

4. BASIC INFORMATION
2. Campus journalists should take note of
FACTS, FIGURES and STATISTICS as
these can best substantiate an article
especially in EDITORIAL, SC-TECH,
FEATURE and SPORTS.
Example: 67% of teenagers have
difficulty in sleeping as reported by the
Fusion Institute of Psychology

5. BASIC INFORMATION
3. Titles of STUDIES, RESEARCH,
PERSONALITIES, REPORTS &
FINDINGS should be well cited as
sources to avoid plagiarism.
Example: In a study conducted by…

6. HELPFUL SOURCE OF
INFORMATION
1. TV PATROL / State of the Nation
2. Rappler
3. Cebu Daily News
4. PDI / Bulletin / Manila Times
5. Online News Sources

7. COMMON
TOPICS

8. COMMON TOPICS
1. PressCon THEME and its key words.
“Empowering Resilient
Communities through
Campus Journalism”

9. Key Concepts on the Theme
How can Campus Journalism
empower resilient
communities?

10. Key Concepts on the Theme
What endeavors in Campus
Journalism can empower
resilient communities?

11. WHAT DETAILS TO
NOTE?

12. DepEd’s initiatives as far
as community resilience
is concerned (disasters,
COVID)

13. Current Issues
concerning
RESILIENCE

14. COMMON TOPICS
2. Post-Election Fever
3. COVID-19 Recovery / Face-
to-Face Classes
4. Electoral Fraud / Protests as
claimed by some

15. COMMON TOPICS
5. Same Sex Marriage and the
LGBT
6. Depression / Anxiety Attack
7. Online Sabong

16. COMMON TOPICS
9. Teachers’ Welfare
10. Disaster Preparedness
11. K-Pop / Asian Fusion
12. Climate Change

17. TAKE NOTE!
These topics can be best
served as
ARGUMENTATIVE and
INFORMATIVE editorial
prompts and cartooning
topics.

18. COACHING
STRATEGIES &
TOPICS

19. Expose students
to READING
materials!

20. News Writing
1. Newspaper
Clipping
2. Detail
Mounting

21. Feature Writing
Compose a good feature
about today’s learners
and their exposure to
gadgets.

22. Feature Writing
Our teachers are the so-called modern-
day heroes. Other than standing in front
of the class, they too play special roles
like a second parent, a friend, a
confidant, a counselor and others.
Express your tribute to your
teachers. The theme for your work is “A
Salute to Teachers”.

23. Feature Writing
Suppose gadgets could
speak. What would be
their message to the
millennials? Express it
in a form of a feature
article.

24. Feature Writing
The youth witnessed the recently-
concluded elections. Surely, they have seen
both the good and the bad sides of how
our country held it. Compose a good
feature article about this year’s conduct of
local and national elections. Lift your hopes
and aspirations in the coming years from
the newly-elected officials.

25. Feature Writing
One of the most influential factors in
our society today is the kind of
television shows that our young are
watching. TV show range from one type
to another and they vary in terms of
purpose and aims. In cannot be denied
that these shows truly create an impact
to the young. Compose a good article
about this.

26. Feature Writing
Compose a good feature article
about your feelings for the revival
of face-to-face classes. Give a good
introduction, make a educational,
entertaining and emotional body
and end your work with a punching
ending.

27. Sc-Tech Writing
The Effects of Too
Much Exposure to
Gadgets (Different
Aspects of a Teenager’s
Life)

28. Sc-Tech Writing
The Alarming Rate
of HIV Cases in the
Philippines

29. Copyreading & Headline
Writing
1. News Restructuring
2. Newspaper Clipping
3. Correcting Headlines

30. Sports Writing

31. Public Service
Announcement
Writing