Recap: Washington Post Reporter Isabelle Khurshudyan
On September 13, 2016 Washington Post Reporter Isabelle Khurshudyan visited George Mason University to share about her experiences working as the Washington Capitals Beat Reporter and gave students advice for their future career paths. Isabelle attended the University of South Carolina and obtained a degree in journalism. While she was in college she was an active participant in the school's newspaper, specifically she covered a soccer beat. After her sophomore year she completed an internship at the Daily Press. From there she went on and applied for a journalism scholarship specifically for minorities and women, which she received. Using this scholarship she continued her career and landed a position with ESPN. This particular job taught her to be aggressive, even though she did not write as much as she hoped she would. Her senior year of college she began free lancing with a local paper in the area. Shortly after, she got an internship with the Washington Post and then was hir...