Washington Journalism Conference

Day Three: July 14th

July 15, 2009

Conference (Panel): This was held in the National Press Conference Ballroom and was moderated by Vaughn Vevers who is the editor of politico, and former CBS online editor. The panelists where Chris Cilliza from the Washington Post, Jim Brady formally from the Washington Post, and Jonathan Martin founder of Politico.

This was the best one so far!!!! The are all friends and I guess that really makes a difference because they where having a legit conversation. They weren’t talking at you or to you, they where like having a real conversation and we where just there in the background. 

The best part was I got up and thanked them all for coming… I don’t really like speaking but I can do it. 

 Smithsonian’s: We went to all three Natural History, American History, and The National Air and Space Museum…but it was all rushed We had like 1 hr in each museum.

 

 

 

NH: I loved the stuffed animals, and they looked so real. My favorite was probably the dinosaur bones though because they where so different. I mean you see fossils and bones, but never like replicas of what they would have looked like!

AH: I love History, especially American History. It’s everything that made us who we are as people and Americans. What people had to go through so we can have the freedoms we all have today. And because of what we do have it helped shape our character. My favorite was seeing the Abe Lincoln exhibit. We saw his tux and his famous old black top hat.

NASM: There where tons of planes and space equipment. We saw sputnik and different suits they used over the years. My favorite was going into the space ship and seeing the planes on the inside.

 

 

 

 

Conference: There where four different ones …but we got split up and we will further discuss them later.

I went to the one with a woman named Wendy Grossman is a stringer for a slew of magazines like Glamour, People, and she even does stories for the post. A stringer is someone they call to travel and pick up different stories. I thought she was a freelancer, and in a way she is because she doesn’t work for anyone, but she is a stringer because they call her to go to places and report back on things.

She was really personable and down to earth. I loved the setting she created by sitting on the table instead of behind it and she spoke with us more then at us. I thought she was a really good speaker, I learned a lot from her like where to start. How to get people to read our articles, and how to set ourselves apart through what we do, But really it’s about who you know and meet.

 

D.C. Night tour!: Amazing it went to some main stops and talked about a lot of history. Like did you know the save a dime donation was thought up and was originated by F.D.R.?! I didn’t until the tour guide told us. We stopped at the Lincoln memorial, the Franklin and Einstein’s. We drove by the refection pool, the bridges, and the cherry blossoms. We saw where the first one was planted as a sign of friendship between the US and China.

 

(At the Einstein Memorial)

 

 

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