Washington Post reporter and author Karen DeYoung spoke to journalism students and community members today, telling them to "just keep asking" questions.

DeYoung, who has worked at the Post since 1975, was at Penn State as part of the two-day Foster Conference, which invites prominent journalists to campus to meet with students.

DeYoung said as a young reporter she demanded a job from the Washington Post after she had freelanced for the paper and was immediately turned down because she had no "real" experience reporting on items such as local government or police.

"I knew how to be in weird places and make sense of a narrow slice of it," she said.

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