Guest Speakers and Educational Trips

The formats of the SIWJ courses are different from the typical lecture or seminar courses at your home school. Throughout the semester, projects, lectures and debates inside the classroom lay foundations for frequent visits outside GWU to media organization in DC. Here, students have the chance see first-hand inside the media industry and talk with working young professionals.
Washington is filled with many of the most prominent people in the media today, ranging from reporters and media executives, to politicians and people who shape what is reported. You will get to meet approximately 20 of these each Semester while visiting the places news happens, in addition to the White House, the Pentagon, and Congress. These speakers are not just some person at a distant podium but talk to you in intimate settings – virtually always ending by giving out business cards.