You follow the trail from one voice-mail inbox to the next.  The searching isn’t as much frustrating as it is exciting.  What is truth?  Who decides?  The source or the reader?  The writer or the editor?  Can PR be true?  Can journalists turn into speechwriters?   Where do you fit into all this?  Journalists must find answers – to the basic “who, what  when, where and how” as well as the deeper “why.”  It’s time to test your calling.  

The Washington Journalism Center is an advanced, experiential semester on Capitol Hill that will cultivate professional news skills and encourage students to think through the implications of being a Christian working in the news media in a city that is home to the powerful and the powerless. 

 

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“The first thing I had to do was walk into my congressman’s office and try to schedule an interview with his press secretary.  I was terrified….By the last week in D.C., I was eating lunch with my congressman, in the congressional cafeteria, and discussing the politics of our region with him.  I couldn’t believe how far I had come.”

-- Hannah Horton

    – Asbury College

       Summer 2005

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