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Lakeside attended a panel at Northwestern in November with three amazing graduates of NU’s Medill School of Journalism who discussed their jobs as Washington journalists in the year since the 2016 election. Susan Page (USA Today), Elizabeth Bumiller (NY Times, bureau chief) and Julie Pace (AP, bureau chief) all cut their teeth at Medill when print journalism was still revered. In addition to dishing on the current DC landscape and speculating on the future of the profession, all three mused on their time at Northwestern, and how their college years shaped their lives. Susan Page recalled how she came to NU from Kansas never having visited anywhere else outside her home state. Elizabeth Bumiller remembered the friendships forged and the skills learned over years of late, late nights at the Daily Northwestern. And Julie Pace said the course of her college direction was transformed after a professor advised her to go to South Africa for her junior year practicum instead of Topeka. “That changed my life,” said Pace. “It made me want to think bigger about what I could do.” Their stories were a great reminder that college at its best is a combination of fierce intellectual pursuit sharpened by the challenge of smart fellow students and engaged professors, and the friendships that you make when arrive from Kansas not knowing what to expect, but knowing that something big is about to happen.
Lakeside attended a panel at Northwestern in November with three amazing graduates of NU’s Medill School of Journalism who discussed their jobs as Washington journalists in the year since the 2016 election. Susan Page (USA Today), Elizabeth Bumiller (NY Times, bureau chief) and Julie Pace (AP, bureau chief) all cut their teeth at Medill when print journalism was still revered. In addition to dishing on the current DC landscape and speculating on the future of the profession, all three mused on their time at Northwestern, and how their college years shaped their lives. Susan Page recalled how she came to NU from Kansas never having visited anywhere else outside her home state. Elizabeth Bumiller remembered the friendships forged and the skills learned over years of late, late nights at the Daily Northwestern. And Julie Pace said the course of her college direction was transformed after a professor advised her to go to South Africa for her junior year practicum instead of Topeka. “That changed my life,” said Pace. “It made me want to think bigger about what I could do.” Their stories were a great reminder that college at its best is a combination of fierce intellectual pursuit sharpened by the challenge of smart fellow students and engaged professors, and the friendships that you make when arrive from Kansas not knowing what to expect, but knowing that something big is about to happen.