Tuesday, May 10, 2011

What happens when a Journalist give the commencement speech?

It's commencement season and A Blog Converged took note of who passed along some words of journalistic wisdom to The University of Colorado's J-School grads recently.

Talk about the life of Reilly... His best advice to aspiring journalists?

"Don't write for free! Doctors don't doctor for free. Professors don't profess for free. Writers shouldn't write for free. Have some pride! If you do it for free, they won't respect you in the morning. Or the writer who comes along after you." ~ Rick Reilly, ESPN's Go Fish Blog

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