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According to Mr. Cayabyab, journalists are no longer just ‘journalists’ today, instead they should now embrace the need to be ‘multi-platform journalists.’ Irrespective of whether you work as a TV reporter, radio reporter, or even in the print media, bringing your smartphone with you and doing extra efforts are significantly crucial. Aside from extending all the possible means to deliver news and receive information, conversely media has also been the primary source for fake news hence, imparting truth and maintaining credibility are real challenges today.

Correspondingly, since audiences are now more on lean-forward experience, communicating the story alone is no longer effective therefore, it is important to start serving it directly to their tables. Utilizing other new media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are consequential to reach more audience and induce dynamic engagement.

Ultimately, regardless of all these complications, hard works, and challenges that media people may grapple with, there’s only one thing that they probably share why they are still choosing to stay in this industry – and that is the passion for what they do. “It is a journalist’s job to deliver news and information to people; it is a pledged obligation, no matter if your story gained views or not.” – Mr. Zhander Cayabyab.

Disclaimer: This is just an exercise for our Digital Publishing class. Thank you for your understanding.

A good story can never substitute your life.

The encounter happened last February 24, 2021, along the Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City, just outside the Ever Gotesco mall. Based on reports, the shooting incident occurred between the PNP and PDEA in a blundered buy-bust operation. During the shootouts until the situation subsided, Gary De Leon of News 5 was recording the incident using his cellphone while doing background reports.

Crime beat is one of the crucial types of reporting in journalism. They commonly involve blood and gore, violence, and shocking value that are potent to divert attentions and therefore be controversial. While crime reports may potentially generate more views and engagement from audiences, it is also important, most especially for us communication students, to be conversant with how these type of stories are being covered by crime beat reporters.

Journalists have one of their foot in the grave, no matter what type of beat they are assigned to cover. Truth is one of the elements of journalism and public service is a journalist’s pledged obligation to people. But again, a good story can never substitute a life therefore, always be on guard when doing a coverage.

Disclaimer: This is just an exercise for our Digital Publishing class. Thank you for your understanding.

If I would be a vlogger or influencer these tips would be helpful because it can be a way to subtle introduce my content or story to different audience. For a beginner, these tips would be helpful and useful because it will serve as guide on how to make the story appealing to the audience. Letting the source know about your work is effective way to engage them because they will be intrigue about how you use the knowledge or information, they shared to you. Also, they can give more genuine feedback which will be helpful for your future works.

The content of each video is different from each other and earn many viewers because of its content. One of the reasons is that they are able to display their creativity in their video. Although their content or concept might be common but they made it interesting by adding their creativity. Also, through their video they are able to help the viewers gather new ideas. The DIY videos are helpful because they are able to teach the viewers by watching and made the procedure easy so that it will be easy to follow.

Since the pandemic our activities were done online and it result to increase in demand for mobile devices and internet. We are now expose to the digital world. They are used for online classes, meetings, and business transaction. Digital publishing allows us to have an effective publication of our literary works and it is cost-effective than printing them on paper.  Here are some digital publishing trends; People want information delivered to them, the rise of mobile devices, interactive content is a necessity, readers will influence content more than ever, audio becomes even more popular, google news takes the lead, and collaborations to meet digital publishing demands.

Pandemic was unexpected, no one sees this coming. When I look outside, the fears and anxiety are waving at me. The country around us and the city around us is a lockdown, I can’t even explain the feeling of being in an isolated area. The first week of the lockdown I entertain myself, I made a new routine but then again it wasn’t enough. The anxiety still there and I don’t know how to manage it because I can’t go outside to hang out with my friends and to distract myself.

Living under the Covid-19 pandemic isn’t easy. This pandemic affects my emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual health which makes me worry about all things. No one knows when will this going to end. I can say that this pandemic changes our lives. Little did I know there is still hope in this crisis. The online class was also frustrating and exhausting, looking at your laptop from 7:30 am to 2:20 am is exhausting, I can’t even explain how tired I am even I am just sitting and listening.

A year passed and I know that step by step I am proud to say that I found my ways to deal with pressure. Looking at the bright side, this lockdown allowed me to learn new things just like baking. Also, I spend more time with my family and I realized that this pandemic made us stronger together. I realized that even we are isolated I know that I am not alone. No matter how scared I am some people remind me that everything will be okay.

Lastly, kindness is highly underrated. This pandemic taught us that we are one despite our culture, religion, customs, social class, and ethnicity. At a very young age, we learn that it’s better to give than to receive an attitude. Today, kindness is contagious, when people experience a generous kindness, they also treat other with kindness or in other word domino effect. We need to become generous people because it’s the right thing to do.  

                                     How is your ECQ journey?

Although some are ready to venture out again, others are happy to stay in and communicate with the outside world solely via their phone. While some are worried about the virus, some are more concerned about the impending crisis. "There is no easy way out," that I recently realized during this pandemic. People may wonder if they can stay within their house for a long time, especially if you're used to being with friends and taking a trip with them. However, over time, I became accustomed to staying inside our house, specifically my room, without wandering anywhere for my protection.

At first, I was having difficulty adjusting, but thanks to the group I stan, "Bangtan Sonyeondan," I found a way to cope up.  Their music, shows and updates are what keep me alive throughout the ECQ journey.

The sleeping pattern is one of the things that has adjusted. Since I am no longer required to wake up at 6 a.m., I began waking up later and later. As a result, I ended up eating lunch, dinner and going to bed at least two hours later than average, and sometimes I do not even sleep because of movies and series that I watched.  I last went out with some friends two days before the quarantine began and now I’m not in the mood to go out just yet, it is more fun to enjoy random YouTube videos and TV shows related to BTS rather than going out. 

P.S. This is just an exercise for our Digital Publishing class. Thank you for your understanding. 

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This whole unprecedented journey has taught us all one thing or another. We all have different experiences and treatment on how to handle this matter. The tragedy of the bodies this virus has taken from us is far more damaging than the actual tally we’ve seen in the news everyday. Those numbers are identities, dreams, communities, families and the future of human ecology. Our efforts in surviving this situation is unmeasurable, we’ve become like a Molave, “strong on it’s own fiber”. 

As I ponder the question about how am I coping with the situation and how do I keep myself sane, I felt the least credible individual to answer this question, because I don’t think I have coped with the situation and I don’t think I’m lucid enough to look back a year from now. People are dying every day, new variants are arising across continents and our government is in its worst shape, are we really sure sanity and coping mechanisms have been the key to surviving these days? So I’d like to think that all throughout the year all I did was to adapt with the situation rather than trying to survive. 

We all know this virus is lethal, it’s real and scientific. So, we turn to our Gods and spiritual anchors and declare our intentions to survive, because surviving today means risking your life so instead, I adapt. If I try to survive, I’ll look for a more regular job out there to help my family ease financial burden caused by economic turmoil. If survival is my goal , me and my family should be out of this place and living far from the hot zones but I guess , we’re not privilege enough to do that  If I wanted to survive, I’d try to do my very best and focus to get high grades but I did not because by doing that means risking my emotional stability and mental wellbeing, surviving is not on the table so instead I adapt.  If I have chosen to survive, I should have tried harder for my dreams and push for every opportunity that I deserve but that will result in more pressure, more voices, additional burden, more heartaches just for the sake of survival? I said to myself that’s not the path I want to take, all I need is to adapt because in today’s reality surviving is not pretty much our choice. It’s not even in our immediate option, it has been taken from us by this virus, by the government and by our very own self.