OJT Journal 4 (May 2 – May 6)
By Yeye Ignacio
By Yeye Ignacio
This fourth week completes my first training month at Star. We are asked to do a research about the ASEAN Connectivity to support a story regarding ASEAN Briefing and proposal of initiatives at Malacanang. Then on Wednesday, we went to New World Hotel in Makati for the coverage of the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Volunteers. It was a volunteering program by the United Nations Development Programme that aims to achieve the eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
We were already there when Ms. Brago informed us that she was called by the office. So we are commanded to cover the event by ourselves; nonetheless, Star assigned another reporter to accompany us there. But since he arrived a bit late, he gave us go signal to do the job even without his presence. We interviewed first the Communication Officer of the UNV to get the background of the story. After the interview, we joined the press conference by UNV, UNDP, Philippine Red Cross and PNVSCA. After the press conference I got the chance to have another interview with the PNVSCA Executive Director to ask for specific elaboration on the case of Mindanao’s peace and development. Deadline of article for that event was 5 pm of the same day. I submitted two news stories from that event.
We were supposed to attend Vice President Jejomar Binay’s 32nd ECoP event on Thursday, but we were not able to come because of some miscommunication between our trainer and the OVP beat reporter. Likewise, we were scheduled to attend Binay’s forum on Friday but he confirmed his absence for the said forum on the day itself. It was an unfortunate OVP week for us. I submitted 5 articles for this week.
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