The Yraga / Amudyong, the official student publication of the University of Saint Anthony Junior High School, launched the first-ever Online Basic Education Press Conference last March 21, 2021, with the theme, “A Journalism for Humanity: Continuing the Fight Against an Info-demic”.

In a pre-recorded video of the speaker during the event’s opening ceremony, Mr. Hector Bryant Macale, the News Production Head of the ABS-CBN News Channel and also the keynote speaker for the virtual opening program of the First Basic Education OPC, tackled media transparency in the midst of the pandemic, and the role of student journalists in bringing fact-based information.

The OPC’s events are News Writing, Feature Writing, Editorial Writing, Science and Technology Writing, Editorial Cartooning, Photojournalism, and lastly, Mobile Journalism.

A total of 282 student journalists are set to compete in the said event, consisting of 166 students from the Grade School Department, 102 from the Junior High School Department, and the Senior High School Department with 14 students.