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The LEAD

is the publication of the Advanced Journalism Class of the University of St. La Salle in Bacolod City, Philippines. The publication, with also online and wall newspaper editions, is published for the Mass Communciations students of the University.

It is an independent paper funded by the students of the class themselves. In 2007, The LEAD, the most multi-awarded college publication since 2000 in the College Press Wards, celebrates its 10th year. The College Press, or COPRE, Awards is the only tertiary-level school-based publication in the Western Visayas region in the Philippines.

The LEAD has been chosen four times in a row as the Best College Publication and Best Departmental Publication in the COPRE. It has also been consistently chosen as the publication with the Best News, Sports, Editorial and Features Page.

In 2006, it set an unprecedented record as recipient of the Graciano Lopez Jaena Trophy in two categories – Best College Newspaper and Best Departmental Publication – for winning the title three times in a row.

The Trophy is named by the organizing Philippine Information Agency after Lopez Jaena, a foremost Spanish Propaganda Movement journalist who was born in Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines. The LEAD was initiated by St. La Salle Professor Allen Del Carmen, who eanred his Master of Science in Journalism degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under a graduate fellowship grant from Rotary Foundation International.

The LEAD editors and writers have made use of their Journalism training and have been working as editors, reporters and journalists of national and local newspapers, television and radio organizations.