The students at Florida’s Douglas High are amazing communicators. That could save lives.; Washington Post, 2/17/18

Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post; The students at Florida’s Douglas High are amazing communicators. That could save lives.

[Kip Currier: This article touches on the overarching themes of our past two weeks of learning modules in my LIS 2700: Managing and Leading Information Services course: (1) the power of effective communication, and (2) managing change and being a "change agent".]

"Telegenic and media-savvy is one way to describe David Hogg, a lean and dark-haired senior at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

But maybe a better way is this: Change agent.

And what could be more sorely needed than a change agent right now? Because the mass shootings in America have become a horror of repetition in which meaningful change has come to seem impossible.

Enter Hogg. The 17-year-old is the school’s student news director, who not only interviewed his fellow students during the horrific massacre at his school on Wednesday, but then spoke with passion to national media figures, providing footage that has now circled the globe.

In a level gaze directly into CNN’s camera, Hogg called out politicians for their hapless dithering."