The best campus journalists will be in Cagayan de Oro City as it hosts the National Schools Press Conference (NSPC) this July 17-21, 2023, the first physical NSPC event since the pandemic. This year’s theme is “From Campus Journalism to Real-World Journalism: Shaping Minds from Schools to Societies.” NPSC 2023 will be recognizing the outstanding school paper adviser and campus journalists.

This is based on DepEd Memo No. 024, series of 2023.

The participants to NSPC 2023 are:
- Top 1 Regional Winner per medium for Individual Categories;
- One (1) Team per medium composed of five (5) members each team for Group Categories; and
- Top five (5) regional winners per medium for School Paper Category.
The NSPC Categories are as follows:
a. Individual Contests (English and Filipino, elementary and secondary)
i. News Writing
ii. Features Writing
iii. Editorial Writing
iv. Sports Writing
v. Copyreading and Headline Writing
vi. Science and Technology Writing
vii. Photojournalism
viii. Editorial Cartooning
ix. Column Writing
b. Group Contests
i. Radio Scriptwriting and Broadcasting (English and Filipino, elementary and secondary)
ii. Collaborative Desktop Publishing (English and Filipino, elementary and secondary)
iii. Online Publishing (English and Filipino, secondary only)
iv. TV Scriptwriting and Broadcasting (English and Filipino, secondary only)
c. School Paper Contests (English and Filipino, elementary and secondary) in PDF
i. News Section
ii. Features Section
iii. Editorial Section
iv. Science and Technology Section
v. Sports Section
vi. Layout and Page Design
For more details on NSPC 2023, read HERE.

