The Farm Journal Forum is going on in Washington, DC and a couple of University of Missouri students are blogging the event.

Here’s a picture of them at the National Press Club. Thanks to Margy Fischer for the heads up.

This is the 11th Forum, and in honor of founder Sonja Hillgren this year’s event is dedicated to her memory.

And we’ve got two student bloggers from the University of Missouri. This fall Farm Journal Media donated money in a five-year commitment to fund the Sonja Hillgren Agricultural Journalism Field Reporting Institute. This is a course at Mizzou that connects aspiring journalists and practicing journalists on a multi-day in the field reporting expedition in the fall. Due to generous contributions from others in the industry, we’ve added a policy component to this institute. One graduate and one undergraduate student are attending the Farm Journal Forum and blogging about the event.

They would be Kate Hill & Katie Allen. I love this post from Kate:

Yesterday morning I had coffee at the National Press Club. I thought a whiskey would have been more in the spirit of old-school journalistic tradition, but just to be in the club was humbling. I could feel the history. I circled the room, reading every framed headline. I was proud to be a member of the press.

Yes, us bloggers are members of the press, even if some of the old timers are still having trouble accepting it.