KU News Release

Kansas Editors Day to feature NBC news correspondent

LAWRENCE — University of Kansas alumnus and NBC news correspondent Bob Dotson will be the featured speaker at this year’s Kansas Editors Day.

KU’s William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications will host the program, which begins at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Dotson will present “A Survival Kit for Professional Storytellers — How to compete with cell phones and Web sites.” The program is free and open to the public.

For more than three decades, Dotson has traveled the country, seeking the extraordinary in ordinary lives. His special reports, “American Story with Bob Dotson,” air on the “Today Show” and “NBC Nightly News” and have won more than 100 prestigious broadcast journalism honors.

He also is the writer and host of “Bob Dotson’s America,” a series of half-hour programs on the Travel Channel, and the author of two books, one for aspiring journalists called “Make it Memorable,” and a memoir, “In Pursuit of the American Dream.” His literary work won the George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedoms Foundation.

The William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications is a nationally accredited school that prepares students for careers in news writing and editing, advertising, public relations, corporate and marketing communications and management and sales. The school is named after William Allen White, a nationally influential Kansas editor and publisher.

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