In DepEd Memorandum No. 176, s. of 2019 signed by Undersecretary Annalyn Sevilla, the agency said that next year’s NSPC will be conducted through its Bureau of Curriculum Development .
The conduct of the NSPC is pursuant to Republic Act No. 7079 or the Campus Journalism Act of 1991 and DepEd Order No. 47 s. of 2010. The NSPC consists of individual and group contests, school paper contests, and concurrent sessions with workshops. The individual contests include News Writing, Features Writing, Editorial Writing, Sports Writing, Copyreading and Headline Writing, Science and Technology Writing, Photojournalism, Editorial Cartooning, and Column Writing .