Baratunde Thurston and his Cultivated Wit co-founder Brian Janosch will be appearing before the 220 students of the Fundamental Issues in Journalism course, a required course for all undergraduate journalism students at the Moody College of Communications within the University of Texas at Austin. 

Fundamental Issues in Journalism grounds students in the role of news media in a democratic society and focuses on the changing nature of the profession and key controversies journalists have faced and createdd.