Welcome to Harvard Model Congress Media! Over the four days of the conference, you will experience the life of a future journalist. In doing so, you’ll become familiar with the techniques used by journalists to gather evidence and compelling content, critically analyze important and controversial issues, report on the facts, craft stories, and more. If you’re excited about the prospect of listening at locked doors, coercing delegates to divulge confidential information, having your work read and seen by the entire conference, capturing “on the record” snafus, and typing frantically on your computer five minutes before a deadline, then this is the program for you! After your HMC experience, you will never read a newspaper, scan a blog post, or watch a news show the same way again.
You will have the chance to interact with many of the other students in different scenarios, whether you are conducting an interview or critically observing them in Congress for an opinion piece. You will get to see all sides of HMC and meet fascinating and passionate people along the way. You will be reporting and presenting the need-to-know facts and responsible for keeping the rest of the conference informed. Your opinions will influence debate. Your presence will be feared and respected. Your skills admired and tested. You will experience what it is like to report on issues, hold interviews, offer opinions, record videos, and more, all under the thrilling pressure of a looming deadline. As your HMC staffers, we hope that you walk away from this experience with a greater knowledge and interest in the field of media, built with the basic skills you need to be a journalist of the future. In the event that you should have any questions for us, we hope that you learn a little about us before the conference.
I am a junior studying English and Government. When not busy doing HMC, I can be found being theatrical, taking pictures for the school newspaper and corralling other people into doing the same, trying to take naps but being woken by my overenthusiastic roommates, and attempting to convince people that I am not a hipster. When I grow up, I want to be either a trophy wife or CJ from the West Wing.
Please let me know how I can help you in the coming month!