The Scribblers Tryouts 2020

Copyreading and Headline Writing Task Set

General Instruction: You are given one week to finish the set of tasks given.
Submission of outputs will be on September 15. Submit your output to the assigned
senior writer for your event. Submit your word documents, pdf files, or videos using the
following format: Surname_Event (ex: Dela Cruz_News Writing).
Task 1: Write a crossline (one line) or two-part crossline (two lines) headline for each
piece of article below. You may type the headlines in this word document and use the
same word document for task 2.

SC junks ABS-CBN’s plea vs NTC’s cease and desist order

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MANILA, Philippines – The Supreme Court has dismissed the petition filed by media giant
ABS-CBN challenging the cease and desist order issued by the National
Telecommunications Commission.

High Court’s Public Information Chief and Spokesperson Atty. Brian Keith Hosaka
announced that the petition was dismissed on the ground of mootness.

Sen. Angara urges digitization of PhilHealth records

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MANILA, Philippines – Senator Sonny Angara urged the Philippine Health Insurance
Corporation (PhilHealth) to strengthen its database system through the digitization of
records.

Angara said that through digitization, PhilHealth can bolster its anti-fraud
mechanisms as part of the ongoing efforts to rid the institution of wastage due to
corruption and inefficient systems.

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 Pinay teen Justin Afante ‘in shock’ after
winning the Voice Kids UK 2020
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MANILA, Philippines – “I’m in so much shock, they were all so good and I didn’t think I
was going to be the one.”

An emotional 13-year-old Filipino singer Justine Afante had this to say after she
was declared as the grand champion of “The Voice Kids” United Kingdom 2020 on
Saturday, Aug. 29.

LeBron loses two of his black heroes, says 2020 ‘worst year of his life’
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LeBron James described 2020 as the worst year of his life on Saturday, with the
Los Angeles Lakers superstar losing two of his black heroes just seven months apart.

James honored actor Chadwick Boseman prior to the Lakers game five first-round
playoff contest against Portland by folding his arms across his chest in the Wakanda
salute from the Black Panther movie.

Boseman, star of the ground-breaking superhero blockbuster, died at the age of

43 this week after a battle with cancer. His death comes seven months after former Laker
icon Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash.

LTO upgrades automated tracking of drivers’ violations

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MANILA, Philippines – The Land Transportation Office (LTO) said it has improved the
Land Transportation Management System (LTMS) and the Driver Education Program
(DEP) by using an online management system for efficient monitoring of violations and
penalties in relation to the application for a driver’s license.

LTO said the online system, with the help of German technology firm Dermalog,
will also determine the validity of motorists’ 10-year driver’s license.

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Task 2: Correct the article below using the appropriate copy reading marks. Write a
crossline headline with kicker that fits the article, the slug and the printer’s instruction.
You may print-out and do the activity, take a picture and attach the photo in this word document.

Kicker: Phase 1 Clinical Trials start in Italy

Headline: Italian bio-tech company starts clinical trials, expected to last 6 months

Slug: Covid-19 clinical trials

Printer’s Instruction: 2-24-3

fl/dsw/kicker
An Italian Hospital said in Monday he had innoculated a first volunteer with an

anti Covid-19 vaccine as part of human trials expected to last 6 months.

The women, in ther 50s, received the first dose developed by Rome-based biotech

company ReiThera at the capital's Spallanzani Institute for infectious diseseas

the trials, developed between

ReiThera and Spallanzani researchers will be carried out on 90 volunteers divided into

groups by age to test the efficacy of different

dosage of the vaccine, developed since March.

If the first results of Phase 1 of the human trials prove positive, researchers says they

will be able to proceed to phases 2 and 3 by the end of the year, on a larger number of

volunteers even oustide of Italy

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The vaccine has already pass pre-clinical tests on models animal. The human trials has

commenced through injecting vaccine into the 50-year old volunteer.

It will take at least 24 weeks to complete phase I human trials of the vaccine," said

Giuseppe Ippolito, the Institute's Scientific Direct or. Overall trials involved 90 people

with varying strength of the proposed vaccine to measure efficiency.

Countries are rasing to develop their own vaccines against the coronavirus panademic,

which have killed over 800,000 peoples around the globe.

France, Italy’s neighboring country, also suffers an exponentially increase in number of

Covid-19 cases with seventy thousand three hundred seventy-nine new infections in the

last 24 hour. This marks France’s highest daily re cord, higher than Italy’s number of

cases.

"Having an Italian vaccine means not being slaves and servants of otter countries that

will say 'Me first’", said Ippolito, who said he hoped the vaccine would be ready for use

by not being slaves and servants spring 2021.

ReiThera is a subsidiary of Swiss COMPANY Keires.