{"id":4023,"date":"2023-03-31T17:26:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T17:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2023-03-31T17:26:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T17:26:08","slug":"former-white-house-photographers-headline-2023-journalism-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/03\/31\/former-white-house-photographers-headline-2023-journalism-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Former White House photographers headline 2023 journalism symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TROY, Ala. (<a href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 Journalism and communication students gathered for the 2023 M. Stanton Evans Journalism Symposium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s speakers were White House photographers Ralph Alswang and Paul Morse. Alswang worked under President Bill Clinton while Morse worked under President George Bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Being around certain emotional moments around loss and his (Clinton&#8217;s) ability to work with people was really impactful,&#8221; Alswang said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morse reminisced on his time during the September 11 attacks with President Bush and the time he flew over New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It really had affected all of us, especially me, because I knew New Orleans,&#8221; Morse explained. &#8220;I loved it and to see it devastated like that was almost incomprehensible.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both men discussed how they tried to capture both the serious and personal sides of the presidents. They also discussed the relationships between them and the presidents they served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alswing and Morse both encouraged students to use the resources they have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;What you&#8217;re learning here now has multiple uses and what&#8217;s important to figure out what those uses are for you and what excites you and how you want to use the ability to communicate,&#8221; Alswing told TrojanVision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid to work really really hard, don&#8217;t be discouraged what part of learning is failing but stay true to your heart things will happen,&#8221; Morse said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 Journalism and communication students gathered for the 2023 M. Stanton Evans Journalism Symposium.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s speakers were White House photographers Ralph Alswang and Paul Morse. Alswang worked under President Bill Clinton while Morse worked under President George Bush.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being around certain emotional moments around loss and his (Clinton&#8217;s) ability to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2023\/03\/31\/former-white-house-photographers-headline-2023-journalism-symposium\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":4024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"topics":[5,17],"class_list":["post-4023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","topics-college-of-communication-and-fine-arts","topics-troy-campus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4023"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}