Cronkite News Service

Student Ian Lee (foreground) is part of a CNS crew covering a controlled burn south of Flagstaff

Cronkite News Service is an intensive professional experience for advanced print, digital media and broadcast students in the Cronkite School.

Top undergraduate and graduate students work out of a converged newsroom in the Cronkite building, covering state government and public policy issues, producing packages that win play in news outlets around Arizona.

Print and digital media students report and write daily news stories, features, enterprise and investigative stories for dozens of daily and weekly newspapers and news Web sites. They also produce video and photographs to accompany their stories. Broadcast students produce TV news packages for television newscasts statewide as well as for the school’s award-winning news program, Cronkite NewsWatch.

Two veteran journalists head the Cronkite News Service bureau:

• Steve Elliott, a professor of practice, is director of digital news, directing the bureau’s efforts for newspapers and news Web sites. Elliott spent 19 years with The Associated Press, serving as Arizona chief of bureau and as an executive at AP’s New York headquarters.
• Susan Green, a professor of practice, is Cronkite News Service’s broadcast director. Green was managing editor at KNXV-TV/ABC15 and, before that, executive producer at WABC-TV in New York.

CNS student Megan Thomas works in the newsroom on the second floor of the Cronkite building.

Since CNS began in 2007, students have had hundreds of articles printed in the 30 newspapers across the state that have signed for the free print and online services. Video packages produced by broadcast students have received airtime in the Phoenix and Yuma markets as well as on NewsWatch.

Students in the program work at least two full days a week in a professional newsroom environment. They report to work in the morning, pitch stories and get assignments and then go out and report stories. They receive academic credit.

For more information about the program, contact Elliott at steve.elliott@asu.edu, 602.496.0686, or Green at susan.c.green@asu.edu, 602.496.0687.