Alumni Hall of Fame

Nicole Carroll
Nicole Carroll

In 1993, the Cronkite School inducted its first class into the Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame. The charter inductees were Al Michaels, '66, an ABC Sports veteran who served as play-by-play announcer for “Monday Night Football” for two decades, and Bill Redeker, '71, an ABC News correspondent who covered the Middle East, the Far East and the United States during his 30 years with the network.

Subsequent inductees have represented virtually all media fields, including print journalism, broadcast journalism, public relations, online media, photojournalism and book publishing.

Each year, the Cronkite School faculty selects new members for the Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame. The new members are inducted at the annual Cronkite Luncheon and, in a tradition started in 2005, they also are presented at the school’s convocation ceremony in the year of their induction.

The 2008 inductee was executive editor of The Arizona Republic, Nicole Carroll.

Carroll, who graduated from the Cronkite School in 1991, was named to the Republic’s No. 2 newsroom position in 2008 at age 40, making her one of the youngest executive editors of a major metropolitan newspaper. She started her career as a police reporter for the El Paso (Texas) Times, then moved to USA TODAY, where she was a graphics reporter. In 1997 she moved back to Arizona and went to work for the East Valley Tribune, where she was assistant city editor, metro editor and assistant managing editor for news. A year later, The Arizona Republic hired her as an assistant city editor. At the Republic, Carroll moved up the ladder quickly. After a succession of jobs ranging from city editor to managing editor for features, she was named executive editor. She is in charge of enterprise, local news, features and entertainment, online content and new product development.

The Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame inductees (with their affiliation at the time of induction) are:
2007 Robert Petty, WLS-TV, Chicago
2006 Mary Kim Titla, NativeYouthMagazine.com
2006 Susan Karis, Clear Channel Radio
2005 Ellen Leyva, KABC-TV, Los Angeles
2005 Katie Raml, KNXV-TV, Phoenix
2004 Kathleen Bade, KFMB-TV, San Diego
2004 Mark Flatten, East Valley Tribune
2003 Jayne Clark, USA Today
2003 Richard Lacher, NBC Entertainment
2002 Derrick Hall, Los Angeles Dodgers
2002 John Hook, KSAZ-TV, Phoenix
2001 Christine Devine, KTTV-TV, Los Angeles
2001 Gary Ulik, News-Press
2000 Linda Cottam Kauss, USA Today
2000 Craig Newman, Arnold and Porter
2000 Conrad Storad, ASU Research Magazine
2000 Linda Williams, KSAZ-TV, Phoenix
1999 Mike Arnold, CBS Sports
1999 Mark Hughes, City of Phoenix
1999 Joanne Ralston, Ralston and Associates
1999 Michael Wong, KAET-TV
1998 Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times
1998 Athia Hardt, Hardt and Junck
1998 John Polich, Fordham University
1998 Barbara Van Fleet, AG Communication
1997 Chuck Allen, KAET-TV
1997 Ray Artigue, SRO Communication
1997 Mary Lou Fulton, America Online
1997 Jacquee Petchel, WFOR-TV, Miami
1996 Phil Alvidrez, KTVK-TV, Phoenix
1996 John Dougherty, New Times
1996 Ann (Inskeep) Serafin, WBBM-TV, Chicago
1996 Pamela Sebastian, Wall Street Journal
1996 Mary Ann Nock, Republic Gazette
1995 John Junker, Fiesta Bowl
1995 Bruce Tomaso, Dallas Morning News
1994 James Loper, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
1994 Don Podesta, The Washington Post
1993 Al Michaels, ABC Sports
1993 Bill Redeker, ABC News Correspondent