Gail Sheehy: 'Write and Edit Your Stories With Meaning'
Journalist and author is the latest David Letterman Distinguished Lecture Series participant at Ball State.
In the wake of the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Ore., many were compelled to revisit footage of Sen. Robert Kennedy speaking in that very community in 1968 about the issues of mental illness and gun control. The politician’s swing through Oregon, which occurred just a few weeks before he was assassinated, also figured in the early career of journalist and author Gail Sheehy, who spoke Oct. 22 to students at Indiana’s Ball State as part of the school’s David Letterman Distinguished Professional Workshop and Lecture Series.
From a report in student newspaper the Ball State Daily News:
Sheehy [in the 1960s] wanted to write about serious issues, so she pitched a story to Herald Tribune editor Clay Felker, who was beginning to develop New York magazine.
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