KSL audience director to speak at first Morris Media and Society Lecture of the year

Utah State University will host a 19-year veteran reporter at its first Morris Media and Society Lecture of 2018 on Monday.

Sheryl Worsley, director of audience at KSL, will speak on “what legacy media can do to stay relevant in the digital world,” according to a statement by Matthew LaPlante, a journalism professor at USU and facilitator of the series.

The lecture series, which is sponsored by the USU journalism and communication department, is “designed to bring diverse media voices to the university’s Logan campus.”

The series also aims to help journalism students gauge the change in media consumption and hear from “journalists who are surviving and thriving in the midst of a lot of chaos, and helping their news organizations stay relevant,” LaPlante said.

Worsley’s visit comes as news organizations are facing significant shifts in how their audiences access journalistic content, LaPlante said.

“For really obvious reasons, this shift is an important subject for our students to explore and understand,” LaPlante said. “That’s why we brought the Wall Street Journal’s social media editor, Natalie Andrews, to Utah to present a Morris lecture last year, and it’s why we’re excited to hear from Sheryl Worsley this year. These are journalists who are surviving and thriving in the midst of a lot of chaos, and helping keep their news organizations relevant.”

Worsley, who has been working at KSL since 1999, is a Utah native from Emery County and graduated from the University of Utah.

She will speak to a class of journalism and communication students Monday morning at 11:30 in the Stan L. Albrecht Agricultural Sciences Building room 101. The lecture is free and open to members of the public.

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