Katie Couric meets with Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ students before sold-out lecture
ABC News correspondent Katie Couric spoke Tuesday evening to a sold-out audience as part of Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ's Tate Lecture Series.
Katie Couric, now a special correspondent for ABC News, spoke Tuesday evening to a sold-out audience in Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Methodist University's McFarlin Auditorium, as part of Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ's renowned Tate Lecture Series.
 Katie Couric (middle) surrounded by Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ students and holding an Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ Journalism T-shirt. |
She sat with students from Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ and area high schools and patiently answered their questions on a wide range of subjects, from her toughest interview subjects to her advice for professional women, from her work as a cancer-research advocate to the duty of the media "to shine a light on social injustice ... to shine a light on oppression."
about Couric's meeting with the students.
Later, Couric posted the photo above . It's her with Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ senior Derek Hubbard, who moderated the students' Q&A session. The photo below, also from her Twitter page, is her with a group of journalism students. (Couric's in the middle, holding the Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵ T-shirt.)
In The Daily Campus story, Hubbard is quoted as saying: "I thought she answered everybody's questions in a great way to where they were able to really get a sense of who she is as well as a sense of the field of journalism."