Location
SSS 114
1 Prospect St
New Haven, CT
Details
Renowned journalist Megyn Kelly will be coming to Yale on April 16, at 4:30pm, in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona 114 for a discussion titled, “The New Media Revolution: A Conversation with Megyn Kelly.”
A journalist and current host of one of the most popular podcasts in the country, Kelly will bring her insight to look at the modern media landscape and how it has changed and is still changing. Kelly will talk frankly about why ratings for and trust in legacy media are in freefall, and why alternative media, like her own podcast, are taking the place once held by mainstream news outlets.
This event is free and open to the public.
NOTE: No liquids or bags are allowed in the venue.
Megyn Kelly is the founder of Devil May Care Media and currently hosts one of the top podcasts in the country, The Megyn Kelly Show. She is also the host of a popular radio show on SiriusXM 5 days a week from 12-2pm EST on Triumph 111. As a world-renowned journalist, Kelly rose to prominence reporting on some of the most consequential U.S. and international news events of the past decade. She was a journalist at Fox News from 2004 to 2017 and has moderated 6 presidential debates, including the first Republican primary debate in 2015, where she received widespread acclaim for her tough and direct line of questions to the candidates. In 2016, her memoir, Settle For More, debuted at number one on the New York Times Best Seller List. From 2017-2018, Kelly was a journalist with NBC News. She has an impressive and varied list of notable interviews, including: Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, then- Senator Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, Michael Phelps, Simone Biles, Brett Favre, Ed Sheeran, Alec Baldwin and Morgan Freeman. Awards and accolades include Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, Vanity Fair’s New Establishment List, Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment Power 100, and in 2016 she became the second news anchor in history to be featured on the cover of Vanity Fair. Prior to her career in television, Kelly practiced law as a litigator for nine years.
