Hearst Visiting Professionals

Mark Hinojosa, director of new media for the Detroit News, visited the school in spring 2009.

The Cronkite School established the Hearst Visiting Professional Program in 1992 with the help of a generous grant from the William R. Hearst Foundation. Since then, the Cronkite School has brought dozens of leading journalists – such as Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Don Barlett and Poynter Institute ethics expert Bob Steele – to campus to talk to students and faculty about their areas of expertise.

Recent Hearst Visiting Professionals include:

2008-09
Susan Page and Carl Leubsdorf. Page, Washington bureau chief, for USA TODAY, and her husband, Leubsdorf, Washington bureau chief for The Dallas Morning News, spoke to students, faculty, staff and the public in The First Amendment Forum about how the media, including their news organizations, covered the 2008 presidential election. The two have covered and directed news coverage of numerous presidential campaigns over the past three decades.

Mark Hinojosa. The director of new media for the Detroit News, visited online media classes and spoke at an event in The First Amendment Forum on how the news media is changing – and how it should change – in the digital media world. A longtime digital media leader, Hinojosa also served as associate managing editor for new media for the Chicago Tribune .

2007-08
Susan Carroll. The Houston Chronicle immigration/border reporter spoke to Cronkite School faculty, staff and students about the economics of immigration, U.S.-Mexico border policy, immigrant deaths, smuggling and vigilante groups. Prior to joining the Chronicle, Carroll covered immigration issues in Arizona for the Tucson Citizen and The Arizona Republic. She has received two Reporter of the Year awards from the Arizona Press Club and she was a Border Justice Fellow at the Annenberg Institute for Justice Journalism from 2003 to 2004.

Julia Wallace. The first female editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution served as a panelist for the Cronkite School’s second annual Paul J. Schatt Lecture in February 2008. She also spoke to Cronkite School faculty, staff and students and visited journalism classes. Wallace was previously managing editor of The Arizona Republic and has worked at USA Today, the Chicago Sun-Times and the Salem (Ore.) Statesman Journal.

Jason Manning. The politics editor for washingtonpost.com came to the Cronkite School in February 2008 to speak to Cronkite School faculty, staff and students about covering politics on multiple platforms. Prior to joining washingtonpost.com, he was the local-national editor for PBS’s Online NewsHour. Manning has also worked at usnews.com, where he produced the U.S. News college rankings on the Web and assisted in the magazine’s Sept. 11 coverage.

2006-07
Christine Devine. The award-winning weekday anchor for KTTV-TV in Los Angeles returned to the Cronkite School, her alma mater, in April 2007 to speak to students about her career in broadcast journalism. She also visited a broadcast news class where she reviewed students’ resume tapes and gave them advice for starting their careers. Devine’s work has won eight Emmy awards. She was inducted into the Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame in 2001 and the following year she received an ASU Founder’s Day achievement award, one the of the most prestigious awards given by the ASU Alumni Association.

Ricardo Sandoval. The assistant metro editor at the Sacramento Bee came to the Cronkite School to speak about the importance of reporting on immigration issues, a topic on which he has spent most of his professional life reporting. In 1997, while reporting for the San Jose Mercury News, he and two coworkers wrote an investigative article that won awards from the Overseas Press Club and the Inter American Press Association for reporting from Latin America. Later, while reporting for the Dallas Morning News, Sandoval and his wife, Susan Ferriss, co-authored the book “The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers’ Movement.”

Jennie Buckner. The retired editor of The Charlotte Observer served as a panelist at the Cronkite School’s inaugural Paul J. Schatt Lecture in March 2007. Buckner spoke to students in the journalism news writing and ethical issues in the news media classes about the business and future of newspapers. Since retiring in 2004, she has been a visiting professor at Davidson College, where she has taught classes in journalism ethics and critical issues in mass media. During her 11 years at the Observer, the paper won numerous state and national awards, including being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.

Keith Woods. The dean of the faculty at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies is one of the nation’s leaders in journalism diversity issues. A former editor at the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Woods will lead an all-day faculty retreat in fall 2006 on how to infuse diversity concepts throughout the journalism curriculum.

2005-06
Mark Trahant. The editorial page editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is one of the nation’s leading Native American journalists. He is the first Native American to serve as the top editor of a major metropolitan newspaper (Salt Lake Tribune) and was CEO of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. He came to campus in spring 2006 to conduct sessions for students and faculty on coverage of Native American communities.

Karen Kasmauski. The award-winning National Geographic photographer came to the Cronkite School in fall 2005 to talk to photojournalism classes about her work and the field. Her work has won top honors in the annual Pictures of the Year competition as well as special recognition in the Magazine Photographer of the Year category. Her book “Impact: From the Frontlines of Global Health” was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Dr. Maria Simbra. The health science reporter for KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh also is a practicing physician. She reports on health care issues that affect Pittsburgh-area viewers and maintains a private practice as a board-certified neurologist. During her visit she worked with Professor Ed Sylvester, a leading science journalism educator, and advanced science journalism students.