Cronkite Events

Hosted by John Craft
Professor and Curator of Marguerite and Jack Clifford Gallery

(2005) In the early 1950s, CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow and his staff expose Senator Joseph McCarthy for exploiting America’s fears of communism.

Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News and the 2009 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism recipient, will speak to Cronkite School students in the school’s First Amendment Forum.

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication has earned a silver award for sustainability from the U.S. Green Building Council. ASU President Michael Crow, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and Cronkite Dean Christopher Callahan will participate in the presentation of the LEED plaque given by the U.S. Green Building Council. The award is given to encourage sustainable green building and development.

For more information call 480.965.1985.

All Things Considered: Radio Stories in a Visual Age

Hosted by Kristin Gilger
Assistant Dean

(2002) Michael Keaton stars as CNN producer Robert Weiner in this movie about the battle for access and technology and the risk involved in CNN’s 1991 Gulf War coverage.

Join the Cronkite School in the Downtown Phoenix campus tent at the Homecoming Block Party. The block party will begin three hours before kick-off. More details to come.

Join the fun with Halloween festivities, food and live music on Taylor Mall.

Hosted by Amanda Crawford
Lecturer

(2008) Frank Langella and Michael Sheen star in this film, which plays out the famed interviews between former U.S. President Richard Nixon and struggling television personality David Frost.

Bring your friends and watch the ASU football game on the big screen.

ASU Cronkite Associate Professor Joseph Russomanno will moderate a discussion of “Extreme Speech and Democracy” featuring ASU law professor James Weinstein and media lawyer David Bodney.

The Cronkite School will hold a reception for its Barrett Honors students. The event will highlight the school's programs and opportunities for its honors students. By invitation only.

Bring your friends and watch the ASU football game on the big screen.

Hosted by Mark Lodato
News Director, Cronkite NewsWatch

(1987) Holly Hunter, Albert Brooks and William Hurt star in this romantic comedy, which provides a humorous reflection of what goes on behind the scenes in the broadcast news industry.

Google public policy expert Chris DiBona will share his perspective on journalism and the media with Cronkite School faculty and staff.

Visual Storytelling: The Power of Photos

Hosted by Steve Elliott
Director of Digital News, Cronkite News Service

(2003) In this true story, Hayden Christensen portrays a young Washington journalist who destroys his career by fabricating sources, quotes and even entire stories.

TV Anchor: More than Makeup and Megabucks

As we honor the legacy of Walter Cronkite on Sept. 30, we would like to offer our students the chance to share their thoughts about the legendary newsman. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., there will be a video camera set up outside of the Cronkite Theater on the second floor adjacent to The First Amendment Forum. Students are invited to take a moment to stop by and record their comments about Walter Cronkite and what his legacy means to them. These comments may be shared with other friends of the school in the future.

Hosted by Bill Silcock
Associate Professor

(2003) Based on a true story, Cate Blanchett plays Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, who is murdered for her investigative reporting on Dublin’s drug trade.

Matt Thompson, Knight Foundation interim Online Community Manager and co-creator EPIC 2014, talks with faculty, staff and students about the future of media.

Hosted by Leonard Downie Jr.
Weil Family Professor of Journalism

(1976) Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman star in this film adaptation of the book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, which details the journalists’ reporting that led to the revelation of the Watergate scandal.

The Cronkite New Media Academy teaches multimedia skills to professionals and others who want to understand how communication is changing and how to set up and maintain a fully functional, multimedia-rich Web site.

For more information and to register visit http://cronkite.asu.edu/newmedia.

Hosted by Jody Brannon
National Director Carnegie-Knight News21

(2007) Angelina Jolie plays the pregnant wife of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who went missing in Pakistan in 2002.

Cronkite School freshmen are invited to this annual event that is just for the school’s newest students. Hear from Cronkite School Dean Callahan, meet with student organization leaders, talk one-on-one with academic advisers, learn about internship opportunities and get to know other Cronkite School freshmen. Bring your questions and your appetite.

Cronkite School faculty member Stephen Doig will introduce the movie and lead a discussion afterwards. This event is also open to all ASU faculty, staff and students. Popcorn will be served.

For two weeks every summer, the Cronkite School brings high school students to ASU for intensive, hands-on experiences in broadcast and print journalism. The students come from Arizona and several other states for the residential program.

For more information visit http://cronkite.asu.edu/beyond/hs_inst.php

6:30 p.m. — Doors open

7:30 p.m. — Processional begins

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s 2009 spring convocation ceremony will be held May 15 at Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium in Tempe.

Keynote speaker will be Catherine Anaya, anchor of CBS 5 News and a three-time Emmy Award-winning journalist. Anaya has extensive print and broadcast journalism experience and has been a leader in the Arizona Latino Media Association and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She was named Anchor of the Year for 2003 by the Arizona Associated Press Broadcasters Association.

For more information about the event, visit http://cronkite.asu.edu/about/convocation.php. And for details on ASU’s university-wide spring 2009 commencement, visit http://graduation.asu.edu/.

Tour the Cronkite School’s public relations lab and join Cronkite School advanced public relations students as they present the results of their semester-long projects. For more information contact Cronkite School assistant professor Xu Wu at 602.496.8548 or xu.wu@asu.edu.

East Valley Tribune reporter Ryan Gabrielson talks about his award-winning work investigating the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.

Cronkite School faculty member Dr. Jody Brannon will introduce the movie and lead a discussion afterwards. Popcorn served.

Cronkite School faculty associate Terry Greene Sterling will introduce the movie and lead a discussion afterwards. Popcorn served.

Students may participate in a variety of Wii games. Sign-up will be available online. For more information, e-mail csevents@asu.edu.

The Cronkite School will host thousands of high school journalism students and their teachers from around the country for workshops, speakers and a reception. Aaron Brown, a member of the Cronkite faculty and former CNN anchor, will be the keynote speaker for the conference, a number of other Cronkite faculty and staff will speak and conduct workshops.

“Nationless,” Carly Campo’s documentary on the trials and tribulations of Bhutanese refugees, Khagendra and Ganga Baral will have its world premiere in the Cronkite Theater on Friday, April 10. In the film Campo, a Cronkite School and Barrett Honors College senior, visually illustrates the resettlement process from the refugees’ point of view. For more information visit http://asunews.asu.edu/20090327_nationless.

Cronkite School faculty member Dr. Dennis Russell will introduce the movie and lead a discussion after. Popcorn served.

Amy Webb, principal consultant for Baltimore-based Webbmedia Group and an Online News Association (ONA) board member, will explore recent tech trends and how they can inspire innovative journalism.

Public relations agencies, firms and organizations interview students for summer and fall internships. Open to Cronkite students only. Application form required.

The Cronkite School will host the Region 11 SPJ spring conference for professional and student journalists from Arizona, Nevada, California, Hawaii and Guam. The conference will include sessions on professional development and the state of the news industry, speakers and an awards ceremony. For more information, contact Mark Scarp at mark.scarp@asu.edu.

For a schedule of events, please visit http://www.spjchapters.org/arizona/Conference%20update.html.

As part of ASU's Origins Symposium the Cronkite School presents a panel of nationally prominent journalists who cover science for The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Scientific American and NPR who will talk about the major events they see on the horizon of scientific discovery and the stories they hope to cover. For more information on ASU's Origins Symposium visit http://origins.asu.edu/symposium/.

Cronkite School faculty member Dr. Dawn Gilpin will introduce the movie and lead a discussion afterwards. Popcorn served.

Bring your friends and watch the fourth round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship games on the big screen.

Bring your friends and watch the third round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship games on the big screen.

Cronkite School faculty member Dr. Mary-Lou Galician will introduce the movie and lead a discussion afterwards. Popcorn served

The Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship will host Mike Dunn, VP and CTO of Hearst Corporation for the past six years. Dunn is responsible for moving the entire company and its subsidiaries, including newspapers, magazines, and broadcast TV, to digital media. In addition, he is responsible for all of the company’s investments and acquisitions in digital/new media. Dunn will talk about his work and perspective on Hearst’s transition to digital/new media. There will be two sessions — one from 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. and one from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.

Babak Dehghanpisheh, former Baghdad bureau chief for Newsweek, will give the Spring 2009 Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture. Dehghanpisheh will draw on his personal experiences covering Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon to discuss how the global war on terror will be won not by battles but by who is able to win the hearts and minds of the people of the Middle East. The award-winning journalist is currently a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University.

Students, faculty and staff compete in basketball free throw and long distance shooting contests.

Students, faculty and staff compete in basketball free throw and long distance shooting contests.

Bring your friends and watch the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship games on the big screen.

In addition to “Under the March Sun,” Charles Fountain is the author of “Another Man’s Poison: The Life and Writing of Columnist George Frazier,” and “Sportswriter: The Life and Times of Grantland Rice.” A former television and radio sportscaster, Fountain’s writing has appeared in more than three dozen newspapers and magazines, including The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor and the Columbia Journalism Review. He has appeared regularly on ESPN’s “SportsCentury” series, commenting on the myth and culture of American sport, and has been a guest on NPR and on more than 50 radio and television stations across the county.

Students may participate in a variety of Wii games. Sign-up will be available online. For more information, e-mail csevents@asu.edu.

Rick Rodriguez, Southwest Bordlerlands Initiative Professor at the Cronkite School, will be the featured speaker. For more information contact Jill Johnson at 602.496.0557 or jill.johnson@asu.edu.

Newsweek Senior Editor Jonathan Alter gives the annual Rhodes Lecture at ASU. Tickets are required for the free lecture and may be obtained at the Tempe Center for the Arts Box Office at 700 W. Rio Salado Parkway in Tempe or online at http://www.tempe.gov/tca/Calendar.htm.

Cronkite School faculty member Dr. Bill Silcock will introduce the movie and lead a discussion afterwards.

Students may participate in a variety of Wii games. Sign-up will be available online. For more information, e-mail csevents@asu.edu.

Cronkite School faculty member Carol Schwalbe will lead a panel discussion on doing team research projects.

The Gannett Co. will interview May 2009 graduates for jobs and for its Talent Development Program. For more information, contact Mike Wong at mike.wong@asu.edu.

Students may participate in a variety of Wii games. Sign-up will be available online. For more information, e-mail csevents@asu.edu.

Dan Gillmor, director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Cronkite School, hosts a conversation with Rosenberg, a former newspaper journalist, co-founder and former managing editor of Salon magazine and author of books such as "Dreaming in Code" and a forthcoming history of blogging. Rosenberg will discuss a new project called MediaCritic.com as well as other topics.

Bring your friends and watch the ASU Men’s Basketball game on the big screen. Popcorn served.

Leonard Downie Jr., newest Cronkite School faculty member and former executive editor of The Washington Post, talks about his first novel, “The Rules of the Game.” A book signing will follow and books will be available for purchase.

Bring your friends and watch the ASU Women’s Basketball game on the big screen. Popcorn served.

A roundtable discussion on environmental journalism with the board of the Society of Environmental Journalists; Dan Gillmor, director, Knight Center for New Media Entrepreneurship, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Marla Cone, editor-in-chief, Environmental Health News, Los Angeles; Douglas Fischer, editor, dailyclimate.org, Boulder, Colo.; and Adam Klawonn, founder and editor, The Zonie Report, Phoenix.

Plus, get the latest on pioneering research being done at ASU’s first-in-the-nation School of Sustainability with Jonathan Fink, director of ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability.

Sponsored by the Society of Environmental Journalists.

Dozens of media companies will be on hand to talk to students about careers. The companies include public relations firms and agencies, broadcast stations, newspapers, magazines and Web sites.

PBS news anchor Jim Lehrer tells Ted Simons about his career in journalism, his passion for writing and his thoughts about the state of broadcast news. Lehrer and former co-anchor Robert MacNeil received the 2008 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, awarded annually by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU.

3:30 p.m. -- Doors open
4:30 p.m. -- Processional begins
5:30 p.m. -- Reception in the South Lobby

Arizona Diamondbacks President Derrick Hall will be the keynote speaker for the Cronkite School’s fall 2008 convocation ceremony. Tickets are required.

Leonard Downie Jr.
Leonard Downie Jr., newest faculty member at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and former executive publisher of The Washington Post, talks about media issues, including how the media covered the presidential race and the future of newspapers.

Bring your friends and watch the game on the big screen.
Popcorn served.

Head out to the largest monthly art walk in the United States, with more than 100 art venues open free to the public in and around Copper Square from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. For maps and listings of venues, visit www.artlinkphoenix.com.

Bring your friends and watch the game on the big screen.
Popcorn served.

Alter, an award-winning columnist, television analyst and author, has worked for more than a decade as a contributing correspondent to NBC News. His 2006 book, “The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope,” was a national best-seller. Tickets are required for this free lecture. For more information, visit honors.asu.edu/w-Rhodes_Lecture-186.aspx.

Sponsored by Cronkite Career Services and the student chapters of the Public Relations Society of America, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and Radio-Television News Directors Association.
Cookies served.

Bring your friends and watch the game on the big screen.
Popcorn served.

10:30 a.m.-11:15 a.m. Reception

Tickets required.

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Luncheon

Tickets required.

Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil, the PBS news anchor duo who epitomize the best of thought-provoking and in-depth broadcast journalism, are this year’s recipients of the prestigious Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. For ticket information, contact Bethany Taylor at 602.496.9444.

Dan Gillmor, director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, moderates a panel that includes Gary Kebbel, journalism program director for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Matt Mullenweg, creator and CEO of WordPress, and Lisa Stone, co-founder of BlogHer.com.

Sponsored by Sue Clark-Johnson

Former Dean Wellington Reiter of the College of Design interviews building architects Steven Ehrlich and Mathew Chaney.

Steve Elliott, director of the print division of Cronkite News Service and former Phoenix bureau chief for The Associated Press, moderates a panel featuring Susan Green, director of the broadcast division of Cronkite News Service and former managing editor of KNXV-TV; Jason Manning, director of ASU Student Media and former political editor of washingtonpost.com; Tim McGuire, Frank Russell Chair and former editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune; and Rick Rodriguez, Carnegie Professor of Journalism and former Sacramento Bee executive editor.

Tim McGuire, Frank Russell Chair and former editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, moderates a panel featuring Chris Anderson, Edith Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics and former publisher of the Orange County Register, Dan Gillmor, director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and Kauffman Professor of Journalism, and Retha Hill, director of the New Media Innovation Lab and former vice president for content at BET Interactive.

Richard Ruelas, reporter for The Arizona Republic, moderates a panel featuring Rick Rodriguez, Carnegie Professor of Journalism and former Sacramento Bee executive editor, Syleste Rodriguez, reporter for 12 News Up Front; and Catherine Anaya, a CBS 5 News anchor.

The documentary will be followed by a conversation with Gil Klein, former Washington correspondent and National Press Club president.

Bring your friends and watch the game on the big screen.
Popcorn served.

Popcorn served.

Page and Leubsdorf will analyze media coverage of the 2008 presidential election. The discussion will be moderated by N. Christian Anderson III, former editor and publisher of The Orange County Register and the Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics at the Cronkite School.

Bring your friends and watch the game on the big screen.

Head out to the largest monthly art walk in the United States, with more than 100 art venues open free to the public in and around Copper Square from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. For maps and listings of venues, visit www.artlinkphoenix.com.

Public relations and strategic media companies will interview students for spring 2009 internships. For more information, contact Director of Career Services Mike Wong at 480.496.7430.

Cronkite School Professor and Knight Chair in Journalism Stephen Doig will introduce the movie and lead a discussion after.
Popcorn served.

Sponsored by Cronkite Career Services and the student chapters of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Radio-Television News Directors Association and Association of Multicultural Journalists.
Cookies served.

Sponsored by The Blaze 1260 AM student radio station.
Popcorn served.

Sponsored by Cronkite Career Services and the student chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Association of Multicultural Journalists.
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Alter, an award-winning columnist, television analyst and author, has worked for more than a decade as a contributing correspondent to NBC News. His 2006 book, "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope," was a national best-seller. Tickets are required for this free lecture. For more information, visit honors.asu.edu/w-Rhodes_Lecture-186.aspx.

Meet Cronkite School faculty and staff and learn more about the school and its award-winning programs. A tour of the brand new Cronkite School building will be offered, including NewsWatch, Cronkite News Service and the Sony Television Studio. Please R.S.V.P. to Kathleen.Burke@asu.edu.

Newspapers, magazines and other media companies will interview students for spring 2009 internships. For more information, contact Director of Career Services Mike Wong at 480.496.7430.

Cronkite Professor Joe Russomanno will lead special guest Alan Isaacman, attorney for Larry Flynt, in a discussion about the court case and the movie as the Cronkite School celebrates National Freedom of Speech Week.
Popcorn served.

Schools, organizations, and communities across the country commemorate the third annual National Freedom of Speech Week. For more information, see listings below and visit http://www.freespeechweek.org/.

Schools, organizations, and communities across the country commemorate the third annual National Freedom of Speech Week. For more information, see listings below and visit http://www.freespeechweek.org/.

Bring your friends and watch the game on the big screen.
Popcorn served.

Broadcast companies from throughout the Valley will interview students for spring 2009 internships. For more information, contact Director of Career Services Mike Wong at 480.496.7430.

Watch the final presidential debate on the big screen.
Popcorn served.

Bring your friends and watch the game on the big screen.
Popcorn served.

Tickets are free for Cronkite School students. Meet in the First Amendment Forum for a 1:45 p.m. departure. To reserve a ticket, R.S.V.P. to kelli.kennedy@asu.edu by Oct. 6.

Cronkite Professor Bill Silcock will introduce the movie and lead a discussion after.
Popcorn served.

Suro, a professor at USC Annenberg’s School of Journalism, will discuss Hispanic issues and research and will answer questions.
Sponsored by the Helios Education Foundation, SCF Arizona in collaboration with the Greater Phoenix Leadership and the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

Bring your friends and watch the game on the big screen.
Popcorn served.

Popcorn served.

With Arizona Republic Film Critic Bill Goodykoontz.

The Barrett Downtown Speaker Series features downtown Phoenix faculty and community leaders presenting their latest and greatest work. All are welcome!

Cronkite School students are invited to sing along to the story of Edward Teach, better known as the notorious pirate Blackbeard. Blackbeard, whose famous blockade of Charleston Harbor worked its way into legend, has taken a ship and its passengers hostage for the strange ransom of a trunk full of medicine. However, a woman aboard the ship threatens to unravel his facade, sending an unexpected twist into the plot. For more information on the performance, visit http://www.herbergertheater.org.

Join us for a discussion facilitated by Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism Aaron Brown. Brown is best remembered for his reporting of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center for CNN, for which he won the coveted Edward R. Murrow Award, three Emmys, a DuPont, two New York Film Society World medals and a George Foster Peabody Award. He is currently the anchor of the PBS documentary series Wide Angle and the host of public radio program The Aaron Brown Show.
Light refreshments will be served.

Co-sponsored by Cronkite Career Services and the student chapters of NATAS, RTNDA and AMJ.