QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 7079)
RA 7079 is the “Campus Journalism Act of 1991.” It provides for the development and promotion of campus journalism and other related purposes.
The State upholds and protects freedom of the press even at the campus level, and promotes campus journalism to strengthen ethical values, encourage critical and creative thinking, and develop moral character and personal discipline of Filipino youth.
It refers to an institution for learning in the elementary, secondary, or tertiary level comprised of the studentry, administration, faculty, and non-faculty personnel.
It is the issue of any printed material that is independently published by, and that meets the needs and interests of, the studentry.
Any bona fide student enrolled for the current semester or term who has passed or met the qualification and standards of the editorial board, and maintains satisfactory academic standing.
It consists of a duly appointed faculty adviser, the editor who qualified, and a representative of the Parents-Teachers’ Association (PTA), who determine editorial policies to be implemented by the editor and staff.
It is composed of student journalists who qualified in placement examinations; at the option of its members, a publication adviser may be included.
They are guidelines by which a student publication is operated and managed, taking into account pertinent laws and school administration policies, and covering matters like publication frequency, selection of articles/features, and similar issues.
A student publication is published by the student body through an editorial board and publication staff composed of students selected by fair and competitive examinations.
The editorial board freely determines its editorial policies and manages the publication’s funds.
Funding may include savings from the school’s appropriations, student subscriptions, donations, and other sources of funds.
In no instance shall DepEd or the school administration withhold release of funds sourced from savings of appropriations and other sources intended for the student publication.
Yes. Subscription fees collected by the school administration must be released automatically to the student publication concerned.
The adviser is selected by school administration from a list of recommendees submitted by the publication staff, and the adviser’s function is limited to technical guidance.
A student cannot be expelled or suspended solely on the basis of articles written or on the basis of performance of duties in the student publication, so long as they maintain their status as students.
DepEd must sponsor periodic competitions, press conferences, and training seminars for student-editors/writers and teacher-advisers of student publications, held at institutional, divisional, and regional levels, culminating in the annual national School Press Conference in historical/cultural interest places.
DepEd, in coordination with national officers/advisers of student publications and student journalists (at the tertiary level) and existing student journalist organizations, must promulgate rules and regulations necessary for effective implementation.
Grants, endowments, donations, or contributions used actually, directly, and exclusively for the promotion of campus journalism are exempt from donor’s or gift tax.
Five million pesos (P5,000,000.00) authorized to be charged against savings from the then-current appropriations of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports.
After fifteen (15) days following completion of its publication in the Official Gazette or in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.