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Rachel Grace Hermosura is a 21-year old Journalism student from the University of the Philippines Diliman. She has been blogging for 4 years and currently maintains this website. For a lengthier and more substantive profile, click here.
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On the record
Oh, to live the Journ life!
Interviews, legworks, transcriptions, angling, research, layouting, cramming---all in the name of truth and passion, we Journalism students do them all.

Unlike my batchmates and other Journalism majors in UP, I was not part of the school paper back in high school. It can be intimidating and at the same time challenging, and it's a good thing we are taught how to gather facts (and how to take care of them). The rest of newsmaking is up to us.

Almost three years in this course and I still get jittery and nervous during an interview. Angling is still something I haven't mastered. I still find it easier to write a news story than a feature story. There is still so much to learn for a Journalism student like me in progress; I'd rather acknowledge that I don't know everything than to pretend that I do. By then, the magic would have lost.

Anyway, on with the sample articles.

News
Personality Profile (February 2007)
His giggle and his speech consume a lot of television airtime. His posters bearing his standard smile and his laidback posture spread everywhere. His name sounds so edible you can even taste it. And if he makes it in the Senate, you can rightfully call him “Ang Palaman ng Senado.”

That man is Rep. Francis Joseph “Chiz” Escudero. Read more...



News article exercise (August 2007)
A tsunami swept the coastal areas of nine South Asian countries surrounding the Indian Ocean yesterday, leaving tens of thousands dead, the United Nations said. Read more...

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Feature
The Last Run of 'Pambansang Hirang': Experiencing History and the Present (June 24, 2008)
That night, everyone basked in the University of the Philippines’s centennial glory.

As the restless crowd awaited the start of “Pambansang Hirang,” a musical play featuring the 100 years of the state university, the CCP complex seemed to play along and lit its golden lights and sprinkled jets of water in the air. Not a sullen face was seen anywhere, save for those who took a chance at spare tickets. I almost qualified as one of them, but thankfully a performer gave me an extra ticket. Others were not as lucky and had to be waitlisted for donor tickets, a scene reminiscent of an enrollment scene where students fought for a slot on a coveted subject.
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