Cronkite Events

Each Monday during the school year, the Cronkite School offers the Must See Mondays speaker series, featuring a prominent journalism or public relations professional. The series, popular with students who are exploring various career options, has showcased everyone from local television news anchors to a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist. The speaker series, which takes place in The First Amendment Forum, is free and open to the public.

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Must See Mondays Speaker Series
Feb. 15, 2010
7 p.m.

David Sasaki

Director, Rising Voices

Rising Voices: A Global Vision that Became a Global Conversation

The First Amendment Forum

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

555 N. Central Ave.

Phoenix
Must See Mondays Speaker Series
Feb. 22, 2010
7 p.m.

Ed Sylvester
Cronkite School professor and science writer

Lynn Klotz
Senior Science Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation

Breeding Bio-insecurity: How U.S. Biodefense is Exporting Fear, Globalizing Risk and Making Us All Less Secure

The First Amendment Forum
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
555 N. Central Ave.
Phoenix
Must See Mondays Speaker Series
March 1, 2010
7 p.m.

Ray J. Artigue
President, Barclay Communications, Inc.

Public Relations in the New Decade

The First Amendment Forum
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
555 N. Central Ave.
Phoenix
Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture
March 2, 2010
7 p.m.

Leonard Downie Jr., Weil Family Professor of Journalism and Washington Post vice president-at-large, will moderate a conversation on accountability journalism. Downie will be joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest who will discuss her series on the Walter Reed Medical Center and its poor treatment of wounded soldiers.

The First Amendment Forum
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
555 N. Central Ave.
Phoenix
Must See Mondays Speaker Series
March 8, 2010
7 p.m.

Retha Hill
Director of the New Media Innovation Lab

New Media R&D: What Students are Creating and Why the Industry is Listening

The First Amendment Forum
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
555 N. Central Ave.
Phoenix
Must See Mondays Speaker Series
March 22, 2010
7 p.m.

Lee Gutkind
Editor, Creative Nonfiction and Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the ASU Virginia Piper Center for Creative Writing

Terry Greene Sterling
Award-winning journalist and Cronkite School Writer in Residence

Writer to Writer: A Conversation about Narrative Non-Fiction

Introduction by Carol Schwalbe
Cronkite School associate professor and former editor, National Geographic

The First Amendment Forum
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
555 N. Central Ave.
Phoenix
Must See Mondays Speaker Series
March 29, 2010
7 p.m.

Leslie Wayne
Former New York Times business reporter and Visiting Professor, Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism

The First Amendment Forum
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
555 N. Central Ave.
Phoenix
Must See Mondays Speaker Series
April 12, 2010
7 p.m.

Jim VandeHei
Co-founder, Politico

Politico: Covering Politics in the 21st Century

Introduction by Jason Manning
Director of Student Media and Managing Editor of ASU News21

The First Amendment Forum

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

555 N. Central Ave.

Phoenix
Must See Mondays Speaker Series
April 19, 2010
7 p.m.

Vanessa Fox
Entrepreneur and Creator, Google’s Webmaster Central

Marketing in the Age of Google

Introduction by Dawn Gilpin
Cronkite School assistant professor

The First Amendment Forum
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
555 N. Central Ave.
Phoenix
Must See Mondays Speaker Series
April 26, 2010
7 p.m.

Dan Gillmor
Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship

CJ Cornell
Entrepreneur-in-Residence

From Concept to Market: ASU Students Who Develop Innovative Digital Media Products

The First Amendment Forum
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
555 N. Central Ave.
Phoenix