Kaylee Hartung, CNN (2018)
Newsmakers
Details
Collection:LPB
Genre: Speech
Place Covered: Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority
Date Issued: 2018-01-24
Duration: 00:29:58
Subjects: Journalists | Miles, Les | Rotary Club of Baton Rouge | Hartung, Kaylee
Contributors:
- Hartung, Kaylee Speaker
Description
A speech by Kaylee Hartung before the Baton Rouge Rotary Club on January 24, 2018. Hartung, a native of Baton Rouge, is a reporter for CNN and a former reporter for ESPN. She discusses: her decision to leave ESPN for CNN; the stories that she has covered for CNN, including the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville and the church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas; the first game she covered at ESPN; her 2013 interview with former LSU football coach Les Miles; and what she learned during her five years as the personal assistant to Bob Schieffer at CBS News. She also answers questions from the audience.