Monday, April 14, 2008

Back to School

I have hit Washington DC, and have spent my three days here doing something that will make my professors back in school very happy (Jan Erik, nĂ¥ skal du nok bli glad!) The picture below is taken from the roof of the Newseum in DC. I visited it the last time I was here (10 years ago), and I remember having so much fun that I really wanted to go back. Turns out the NEWSeum has been closed for years and opened again the day before I arrived. Talk about timing! Six flors of heaven for a news junkie like myself.



While being here I have stayed with my friend Lauren which I went to Camp Rising Sun with in 1998 and stayed with in New York the summer of 2000. Now she´s a hot shot Pro Bono worker in DC.

 


Monday night Lauren took me to The Kalb Report at the National Press Club here in DC. 

"The Kalb Report In Search of Truth: A Conversation on Investigative Reporting with Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalists: Dana Priest from The Washington Post and Seymour Hersh from The New Yorker." (Pictures to the right.)

Not unlike Norwegian print journalists they think the internet suck, and that everything should be done old school. Besides that it was very interesting. To listen to the way these people work and what they have accomplished was very inspiring. 

Tomorrow I am off to New York City... on a Greyhound bus.



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