D.C. in all its glory

This is taken from an email I wrote my first day in D.C.:

"Im still at work.. we are composing our BIO's that will supplement every story that we (Caitlin, Megan, Emily, Heather and Diana) write. We spent the day talking about security at the building itself and policies and procedures when reporting on places like Capitol Hill and house and senate meetings...

Overall it went well, we met with Peter Copeland, the Scripps Howard Wire Service Washington Bureau Chief. Very cool guy, with a lot to say. He attributed the fall of papers to Craigslist. Our office is located on the 10th floor of a big high rise building with glass paneled windows all the way to the top. :) I can see the Washington Post from the windows (which are very large)...


I will pretty much report on whatever I am asked to and whatever else I come up with. Our office is two stops [south] of our apt and our apt is less than a block from a Metro stop.. about a 15 minute commute. There are two other interns working here for reporters. I should explain that Scripps Howard Foundation Wire is the "charitable arm" of the E. W. Scripps Company or Scripps Media Center. (It took a good hour and half for them to explain all the intricacies of the name changes)

Anyway this company has been around for a long time, and the Scripps and Howard families still have the controlling shares of the stock.. :) This company also controls HGTV, foodnetwork and a few other big network stations. It also owns quite a few local TV stations and other newspapers.

I'm really excited for the inaugural weekend because all of scripps tv stations and paper correspondents will be having a sleep over at our office and I might just join in to avoid having to walk 50 minutes to work the day of.. :/ But that should be very cool.."

I included a link to foodnetwork, because I love it.