Life on the Beat: What Journalism Students Saw

Life on the Beat: What Journalism Students Saw

LAST SUMMER, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility hosted a group of journalism students on their internship. They were trying to earn three units’ worth of credit for a practicum subject that was required in their journalism course. Departing from the usual chores assigned to interns (monitoring the news and sending them out to cover stories), the PJR Reports sent some of them to the major beats, not to cover the events that were taking place there but to observe how the reporters worked, the kind of environment in which they did their jobs, how they dealt with their sources and with one another, how they comported themselves while at work, and how their stories were used by their news organizations. It was, in short, an exposure to the culture of reporters on the beat. This was what the students saw.

[x] The Department of Justice: 2 press corps and an ‘injustice’ secretary
[x] Manila City Hall: A price to pay for independence
[x] The House of Representatives
[x] The Senate: The good life
[x] Camp Crame: Still (mostly) a man’s world
[x] The Philippine Stock Exchange: Rubbing elbows with the rich

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