The "Peopo Citizen Journalism Award for Public Television" recently held an award ceremony at the National Taiwan University Convention Center. The Department of Information and Communication at STUST won two special news reporting awards. This award is co-organized by Public Television and the Excellence Journalism Foundation. As Chairman Yu-Shiu Chen presented awards to the representatives of each finalist, affirming the hard work and enthusiasm of citizen journalists for citizen journalism, so that stories from various places can be spread through video reports to every corner, continuing the "deep roots in the ground and speak out their ideas.

[The Department of Information and Communication, STUST, won two News Special Reporting Awards. The presenter, Guo-Hua Yu, Manager of the R&D Department of PTV (left 1), and the team’s advisor Prof. Dan-Ching Liang (left 3) took a group photo with the award-winning students.]

"PeoPo Citizen News" is Taiwan's first independent citizen's audio-visual news platform and the world's first citizen news station run by a public television station with stable operating resources and manpower. The name "PeoPo" comes from the English abbreviation "People Post." It means that everyone has the right to use the media, and it also uses the homonym of Taiwanese "Pick Step" (trick), hoping that the public will share their own "Pick Step" or information knowledge.

[Prof. Dan-Ching Liang from the Department of Information and Communication, STUST instructed Tsai-Pei Pan, Pin-Chi Chen, Yu-Chi Gu, Yu-kun Hu, and Pei-Rong Yang to win the Student Group News Report Award with their news report "Broken Pen and Red Ink for the Look of General in Kinship."]

Students from the Department of Information and Communication, STUST—Tsai-Pei Pan, Pin-Chi Chen, Yu-Chi Gu, Yu-kun Hu, and Pei-Rong Yang won the student group news report award for their work "Broken Pen and Red Ink for the Look of General in Kinship." The report drew from an interview with the first Taiwanese female artist of drama facial makeup art You-Mei Li, telling about her breaking from traditional gender framework, taking over the concept of Yong-Ji Guo and Shiao-Jiang Zheng, and promoting more people to understand the culture of dram face makeup. She eliminated the public's impression of drama face makeup in the past. Pin-Chi Chen, head of the award-winning student team of the Department of Information and Communication, said that the interview was done during the pandemic containment period, which caused great bottlenecks to the shooting. Fortunately, the masters You-Me Li, Yong-Ji Guo and Shiao-Jiang Zheng allowed the team to visit them and finish the shooting smoothly.

[Prof. Dan-Ching Liang from the Department of Information and Communication, the STUST, instructed Jia-Ying Fang to win the Student News Special Report Award with her work "The Beauty and Sorrow of the Green Iguana: The Tragedy of Inhumane Removal".]

Jia-Ying Fang, another STUST award-winning student, won the Student News Special Report Award with her work "The Beauty and Sorrow of the Green Iguana: The Tragedy of Inhumane Removal," which was reported from the perspective of caring about Taiwan’s animal protection and the law on foreign species invasions The proliferation of species of green iguana points to Taiwan’s unsound management of invasive species and related laws and regulations.

[Chairman Yu-Shiu Chen (left) of Public Television and STUST award-winning student Pin-Chi Chen (right) took a group photo at the awarding ceremony Peopo Citizen Journalism Award.]

PTV Chairman Yu-Shiu Chen said that PTV has been paying attention to the training of young citizen reporters for many years. Under the raging pandemic, citizen reporters continue to report continuously, insisting on using cameras to care about local issues, sharing wonderful and moving positive energy stories and looking forward to more brilliant works. Many partners have continued to demonstrate the power of citizen journalism and help Taiwanese journalism go international.

[Chairman Yu-Shiu Chen (left) of Public Television and STUST award-winning student Jia-Ying Fang (right) took a group photo at the awarding ceremony of Peopo Citizen Journalism Award".]

The instructor of the student team, Prof. Dan-Ching Liang, said that the Department of Information and Communication of STUST has joined the public television Peopo Citizen News Platform as a campus interview center since 2008. Through the Citizen News Platform and the annual participation in the Citizen News Award, students can be more sensitive to local issues. To nurture students by means of "learning by doing" and "learning by competition," the journalism education of STUST has been a training process that combines theory and practice. This training mode determines the strength of students' sensitivity to news and the success or failure of news reporting. Students can see through the lens and speak up for the disadvantaged, report wonderful stories of local culture and history education, learn to care about local ecological conservation, animal protection, education and learning, sustainable development and other topics as they fulfill their social responsibilities.

President Deng-Maw Lu of STUST said that the public television Peopo citizen news platform has accumulated many representative examples of high-quality news over the past 15 years, and it has also been recognized by the international communication community. It also affirmed the New Media Communication Pioneer of STUST for the cultural and creative industry, showing that the Department of Information and Communication of STUST has done a great job cultivating practical and practical talents and striving to achieve the educational goal of integrating learning with use.