Summary
Costa relates how working at The Hatchet, the college newspaper of George Washington University, has taught him little about covering the affairs of the White House for news organizations. He relates that it taught him something far more useful for someone coming out of college: how to write for readers and how to find a local angle while writing about national news.
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From the Newsroom of Gw's 'the Hatchet'
"SOMETHING HAPPENS HERE."
That's the phrase used by George Washington University on its admissions pamphlets to tout the school's location in downtown Washington, D.C. That's what drew me to GW as a freshman in the fall of 2001. And it's what first attracted me to the ...See the full content of this document
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