Student journalists touch down in D.C.

01/19/13 17:25 PM

(Full Inauguration Blog coverage here. Twitter hashtag: #SMUinDC) By Julie Fancher / jfancher@smu.edu We are officially off and running. The SMU in DC crew took off this morning, some earlier than others. My flight was set to depart Dallas at 10:30 this morning. I woke up in somewhat of a panic, unsure if I was going to be able to do this. The pressure was starting to get to me and now I was in full on panic mode, wondering if I had remembered to packed everything I needed. Once I was on the plane, I realized that this all seemed too familiar. I had done this nearly four years ago. As a senior in high school, I went to D.C. with my classmates for a trip called Close-Up, which took high school seniors around the city to teach them about the legislative system. ...

One student's view of the inauguration

01/18/13 16:26 PM

Full Inauguration Blog coverage here. Twitter hashtag: #SMUinDC

SMU Senior Kelsey Charles, one of the journalism students covering the inauguration in D.C., is using the online curation tool Storify to document her experience:

Getting ready for the Inauguration

01/14/13 20:15 PM

By Julie Fancher / jfancher@smu.edu (Full Inauguration Blog coverage here. Twitter hashtag: #SMUinDC)   With the 57th Presidential Inauguration just one week away five SMU journalism students have been preparing to cover this historic event from Capitol Hill. In addition to more than a dozen Communication Studies students, we journalists will be there to be the eyes and ears for SMU.   Although we will only be in D.C. for four days, we will be providing many blog posts, live tweets and news packages to The Daily Campus and The Daily Update.   Let me start by introducing SMU's "DC in D.C." reporters:   The blog posts will be coordinated in D.C. by me and sophomore Katelyn Gough. I am a senior working as the Assignments Desk Editor...