JOUR 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Junk Food, Super Size Me
9 May 2018
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JOUR 302-Lecture #23
Presentations start Tuesday!
Guest Speaker
• Background
o 27 years at the Journal
o Reporter in Texas
o Moved to New York
o The Kansan
➢ Magical to be an English major to being a reporter for the star building
• Metaphor for journalism
o Surgeon repairing MCL
➢ You typically don’t know what you’ll be working on in journalism
• Highlight of his career
o Super into triathlon
o Wrote about health
➢ There is a good chance there you will not experience interviewing in news room, you
will be interviewing everyone around you
o Always looking for a story
• He got sued
o Deposition
o The Journal hired private investigators
• People will say something in a corporate filing and someone will tweet it
o Suddenly it is all out in the open
• Corporate Communications
o Practice offerings
o Created a new title-chief content officer
o Companies are looking for journalists
Project about junk food
• History of it
• General attitude towards it
• Where did it come from
• Everyone knows you shouldn’t eat it, but they still do
o Fast Food Nations
o Michael Moore
