NEWS FROM BOSTON UNIVERSITY
For Release Upon Receipt - July 18, 2000
Contact: Janice Zazinski, 617-353-4198, [email protected] or
Linda Killian, 202-756-7801, [email protected]
BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAUNCHES WASHINGTON JOURNALISM PROGRAM
Internship combines learning, practice
(Boston, Mass.) - Boston University announces the creation of a Washington Journalism Program for both graduate and undergraduate students who will report on national politics with a New England angle for the program's newly-created BU-Washington News Service.
The university's Washington Journalism Program is a joint venture between its College of Communication and International Programs Office.
Starting this September, students selected for their writing and reporting skills as well as their practical experience, will spend a semester in Washington covering the issues and politicians relevant to New England and working in the BU-Washington News Service newsroom, supplying news and features to regional newspapers, radio, television, and online news media for the subscription-based service.
"This new program will put Boston University journalism students at the heart of our nation's government and the city where national news is made every day," says program director Linda Killian. "The experience of being a working political journalist will give them a real leg-up in their careers."
Killian is a long-time Washington political journalist and author of a book on Congress called The Freshmen: What Happened to the Republican Revolution? She has written for national political magazines and newspapers including the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Boston Globe and appeared as a political commentator on CNN, C-SPAN, CNBC, and MSNBC. She is the former senior editor of National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."
In addition to their work for the BU-Washington News Service, students will take a course in political reporting, intern in the Washington bureaus of national news organizations, and attend lectures by national journalists. Some of the lectures will be webcast back to the College of Communication in Boston.
The program will combine the theory of the classroom with the practice of the newsroom. "The Washington students will finish the semester not only with incomparable academic and professional learning experiences, but also with a rich portfolio of bylined clippings, broadcast tapes and web stories," says William B. Ketter, chair of the journalism department and a former editor of the Patriot-Ledger, past president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and a current member of the Pulitzer Prize Board.
For more information on the program, visit: http://www.bu.edu/com/
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