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It’s that time of year again when bright, eager journalists enter the work force after graduating from j-schools across the country. That means it’s also that time of year again when seasoned and storied journalists offer up commencement speeches.
On May 9, Tom Brokaw spoke to students at High Point University about the future they were creating and his hopes for them. “This morning, as you sit out there with your personal devices, as you tweet and text, tune in and tune out, as you retrieve and save right now, you are holding in your hand an idea that is so big, we can not yet see the end of it,” he said. “The digital age, created by people your age, bold, unconventional, useful, and just getting started.”
PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff spoke on May 12 at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Congratulations graduates of @ASU Cronkite School of Journalism – great to be in Tempe with you! pic.twitter.com/8M62Q8cIFi
— Judy Woodruff (@JudyWoodruff) May 13, 2015
There are a lot of great commencement speech lists out there already, including one from The Hollywood Reporter, one from The Huffington Post and a media-centered one from TVNewser. Here’s a quick look at other journalists speaking at upcoming commencement ceremonies. And check out The Huffington Post’s Commencement Bingo game. For j-grads, add in the words “disruption” and “millennial” where appropriate. (And here’s guessing that the late David Carr’s 2014 commencement speech at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism will be hard to top.)
May 15:
Jorge Ramos, anchor, Fusion and Univision, University of Southern California‘s USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
May 16:
Katie Couric, anchor, Yahoo News, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brandon Stanton, creator, Humans of New York, Westfield State University
Richard Lui, anchor, MSNBC, California State University at Fullerton
Howard Fineman, global editorial director, The Huffington Post, Washington and Jefferson College
Martha Raddatz, chief global affairs correspondent, ABC News, Kenyon College
May 17:
Nina Totenberg, legal affairs correspondent, NPR, University of Vermont
Gwen Ifill, co-anchor, “PBS NewsHour,” Utica College
Bob Woodruff, correspondent, ABC News, Bucknell University
Jill Abramson, visiting lecturer, Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
May 21:
Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent, NBC News, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
May 22:
Myriam Marquez, executive editor, El Nuevo Herald, Philip Merrill College of Journalism
May 23:
Chris Matthews, host “Hardball,” MSNBC, Saint Mary’s College of California
Lester Holt, anchor, “Dateline NBC,” California State University, Sacramento
May 31:
Arianna Huffington, co-founder, editor-in-chief, The Huffington Post, Vassar College
June 2:
Fareed Zakaria, host, “GPS,” CNN, Macaulay Honors College at The City University of New York
June 14:
Richard Engel, chief foreign correspondent, NBC News, Stanford University
David Brooks, columnist, The New York Times, Dartmouth College
