Allyson Bird - Internship Diary

Oct. 19:

The heart of The Politics & Journalism Semester is the seminar series. Twice a week we hear from professionals over bagels and coffee in a roundtable setting.

Our seminar today was with Jonathan Rauch, National Journal columnist and author of Government's End.

His lecture, like the book, was about how interest groups clutter politics, because policy is easier to make than to cancel. I was happy to learn that Rauch got his start in journalism with The Winston-Salem Journal, a Media General publication. And he found his way into the National Journal by working as an intern.

Our program director gave us copies of the most recent American Journalism Review today. Even a month and a half into it, it was pretty surreal seeing my picture in an ad for The Politcs & Journalism Semester.

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