Journalism Club: Finding the true

July 9th, 2011

Mr. Julio Asturias

Principal Centro Escolar El Roble
Guatemala, Guatemala

Mr. Julio Asturias:

I wish that your activities result good. The reason of this letter is that several students and I want to create a journal club. The journalism is an activity to search, collect, and publish actual information. The publication can be a newspaper like The New York Times, The Sun, Daily News, etc. or in Guatemala something like Prensa Libre, El Periodico, Siglo XXI, etc. It is an activity that we don’t have at school, and it is an activity that can help to discover an ability of few students. Then Mr. Julio Asturias, I want to suggest that the school implements a journalism club so students will be more informed, and publish with a spirit of service.

Journalism dedicates to search and publish information, and in consequence the student journalist will be informed. Students will also benefit because they will be well informed. The club would post the news in a general billboard, located where everyone could find it. The club will meet after class schedule and print the news to be published or give to student a little newspaper, obviously this method needs some money to make it a reality so the possibility of selling the newspapers should be considered. The club could have its own room where the activities of journalism could be produced and improved more efficiently.

The news that the journal club will publish will speak about school achievements like winning social, education, and sport tournaments, etc. Take for specific example the inter-school soccer championship, the academic Olympics, charity works, etc. reporting about these facts will rise in student admiration, enthusiasm, even love for the school, in other words a public spirit in each student. This can be done if the students that enter in the journalism club emphasize in appreciating the school and want that the other students to have the same sense. This journal club’s members should have a good academic level and academic support of the teachers.

To end, Mr. Julio Asturias, my reasons why the journal club should be made are because students will be more informed thanks to the organization that the club will have, and it will give the students more public spirit for the school with the topics that the club uses as school achievements. Club´s members will be good students and school lovers and will have the support of teachers. I wish that you think about this grand club and approved it.

Kind regards,

Carlos Esteban Vega Melgar
V Baccalaureate Section B