School News
ABC News Launches New Partnership with Cronkite, Four Other Top J-Schools (5.7.08)
ABC News announced the launch of ABC News on Campus, a partnership with the Cronkite School and four other top journalism schools across the country to educate and mentor talented college students. read more
Cronkite Professor Named Top Teacher at ASU (5.5.08)
Newly promoted Associate Professor Carol Schwalbe is the recipient of this year’s ASU Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Classroom Performance. read more
Cronkite Professor Aaron Brown to Host PBS “Wide Angle” on PBS (5.1.08)
Aaron Brown will continue his teaching role as the first Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism while he returns to TV as the new host of the PBS series “Wide Angle.” read more
Lehrer, MacNeil Named 2008 Cronkite Award Winners (4.25.08)
Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil, the PBS news anchor tandem who epitomize the best of thought-provoking and in-depth broadcast journalism, will be this year’s recipients of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. read more
Arizona’s PBS Station Airs Two Cronkite Projects (4.24.08)
Eight/KAET-TV, the Arizona PBS station that reaches 1.3 million viewers each week, will air two specials created by Cronkite School. read more
Cronkite Students Take Home 51 SPJ Awards (4.20.08)
For the eighth consecutive year, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication dominated the Society of Professional Journalists’ regional student competition, winning a remarkable 51 awards – nearly half of all the awards given in the Region 11 SPJ Mark of Excellence competition, which honors the best student work in Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada. read more
Cronkite Students Part of National Gannett Award (4.18.08)
Five Cronkite School students were part of a team from The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com that won first place in this year’s Best of Gannett national award for breaking news coverage. The team was recognized for coverage of the July 27 crash of two TV news helicopters that killed four. read more
Longtime Cronkite Teacher Dies (4.11.08)
Norm Ginsburg, a longtime CBS executive who taught parttime at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication for more than 20 years, died Thursday after a short illness. He was 83. Ginsburg mentored hundreds of Cronkite students who now make up the core of many sales and promotions departments at radio and television stations in the Valley and elsewhere. read more
Cronkite School Conducts UNITY Diversity Research (3.31.08)
The Cronkite School will unveil two major journalism diversity projects at the UNITY: Journalists of Color convention in Chicago this summer. The projects, funded by the McCormick Tribune Foundation, consist of a Web-based clearinghouse for research on news diversity issues and a census of ethnicity of the Washington press corps. read more
Cronkite Student Wins Reporting Prize (3.31.08)
Deanna Dent, a senior in the Cronkite School, is one of nine journalism students from across the country to win the 2008 Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition. She will travel to Japan and South Korea for a 13-day journalism study tour in June, sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation. read more
Publisher Named President of Cronkite Board (3.18.08)
Win Holden, publisher of Arizona Highways magazine, has been named president of the Cronkite Endowment Board for 2008, replacing Ron Bergamo, general manager of AZ-TV, who was killed in car accident in January. read more
Top Documentary Award Goes to Cronkite Graduate (3.14.08)
A Cronkite graduate has won an award for best student documentary from the Broadcast Education Association. Ray Gonzales’ documentary tells the story of one Japanese-American whose family was moved to an internment camp near Phoenix during World War II. read more
Cronkite Students Finish First in BEA Awards (3.7.08)
The Cronkite School won more awards than any other school in the nation in the latest Broadcast Education Association annual news reporting and interactive media contests, including two of the BEA’s top honors. read more
Reynolds Institute Awards Business Journalism Scholarships (2.28.08)
Eight university students from around the country who have shown promise in the field of business journalism have been awarded $4,000 scholarships from the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. One of the recipients is Ashley Macha of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. read more
Cronkite School Hosts ALMA High School Workshop (2.20.08)
The Cronkite School is hosting 90 high school students from across the state for a daylong workshop on journalism sponsored by the Arizona Latino Media Association. This year’s workshop will focus on multimedia skills. read more
Rick Rodriquez Named Southwest Borderlands Initiative Professor (2.6.08)
Rick Rodriguez, former executive editor of the Sacramento Bee and the first Latino president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, is joining the faculty of the Cronkite School as the school’s Southwest Borderlands Initiative Professor. read more
Godfrey Receives BEA Education Service Award (2.6.08)
Cronkite School Professor Donald Godfrey is the recipient of the Broadcast Education Association’s 2008 Distinguished Education Service Award, the group’s highest honor for an individual who has contributed to electronic media education. read more
High School Educator Heads Stardust Program (2.1.08)
Dave Cornelius, a longtime Valley educator who built the state’s premier high school broadcast education program, has joined the Cronkite School as director of the Stardust High School Journalism program. Cornelius will oversee a groundbreaking new initiative to create multimedia newsrooms at 10 underserved Arizona high schools. read more
Nation’s Top Broadcast Students Participate in Meredith Fellowship (1.31.08)
Twelve of the nation’s top minority broadcast students spent a week in Phoenix learning from local television professionals as part of an annual fellowship sponsored by the Meredith Corp., KPHO CBS 5 in Phoenix and the Cronkite School. read more
Women News Leaders Speak at Annual Schatt Lecture (1.28.08)
Four leading women journalists will discuss the gains women have made in journalism and the challenges they still face at the second annual Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture, held in memory of Paul J. Schatt, longtime editor at The Arizona Republic and instructor at the Cronkite School. read more
Goldwater Lecture Features Aaron Brown on Press and Politics (1.24.08)
Aaron Brown, former CNN anchor and the Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism at ASU, is giving this year’s Goldwater Lecture, offering his insights on press coverage and the 2008 presidential campaign. The annual lecture, sponsored by the Arizona Historical Foundation and the Cronkite School, will be held Jan. 30 and is free and open to the public. read more
Weather Central, Cronkite School Enter Unprecedented Partnership (1.18.08)
Weather Central Inc., a leader in state-of-the-art weather, news, traffic and sports digital broadcast technologies, announces an unprecedented partnership with the Cronkite School. Weather Central will provide the school with cutting-edge satellite, graphics and mapping technologies that will enable students to produce professional weather reports. read more
Cronkite Board Chairman Killed in Car Accident (1.7.08)
Longtime media executive Ron Bergamo, chairman of the Cronkite School Endowment Board of Trustees and general manager of AZ-TV in Phoenix, was killed in a car accident Sunday. read more
Cronkite Institute for High School Journalism Formed (12.19.07)
The Cronkite School has announced the creation of the Cronkite Institute for High School Journalism, a consortium of programs reaching out to high school journalism students and their teachers. The institute includes long-standing Cronkite programs as well as several new ones. read more
Cronkite Graduate Honored at Emmy Awards (12.17.07)
A recent Cronkite graduate was honored for best student production in the Emmy Awards given by the Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. read more
News Leader Gives Graduates Message of Hope (12.14.07)
Rick Rodriguez, former executive editor of The Sacramento Bee and one of the nation’s most prominent Latino journalists, told Cronkite School graduates that massive changes in the journalism profession mean opportunity for them. Rodriguez delivered the keynote speech at the Cronkite School’s fall convocation ceremony. read more
TV Reports by Cronkite Students Now Air on ABC15 (12.3.07)
Cronkite students are now appearing weekly on a network television affiliate in one of the nation’s largest media markets. read more
Chicago TV Journalist Joins Alumni Hall of Fame (12.2.07)
Longtime Chicago television journalist Bob Petty is the newest member of the Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame. read more
Business Stories on Sustainability Up Dramatically (11.14.07)
Business stories on environmental sustainability published in the nation’s 10 largest newspapers have increased dramatically, a new Reynolds study shows. read more
Walter Cronkite Presents Award to Jane Pauley (11.12.07)
With nearly 1,100 in attendance, Walter Cronkite presented the annual award in his name to television journalist Jane Pauley. read more
Journalists, Profs Named Reynolds Fellows (11.12.07)
Twelve journalists and 12 journalism educators are awarded Reynolds Center fellowships to focus on business journalism, to be held concurrently in January at the Cronkite School. read more
Digital Media Leader Named Knight Center Director (11.6.07)
Dan Gillmor, an internationally recognized author and leader in new media and citizen-based journalism, will be the founding director of the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Cronkite School. read more
Former Top Editor to Deliver Cronkite Graduation Address (11.6.07)
Rick Rodriguez, the former executive editor of The Sacramento Bee and one of the nation’s most prominent Latino journalists, will deliver the keynote address at the fall 2007 convocation for graduates of the Cronkite School. The ceremony will be held Dec. 14 at Grady Gammage Auditorium on ASU’s Tempe campus. read more
Dean on New Times Subpoenas, Arrests (10.19.07)
Dean Christopher Callahan calls the subpoenas of New Times records a “grotesque and unprecedented” abuse of government powers. read more
Former St. Louis Editor Named Edith Gaylord Professor (10.18.07)
Ellen Soeteber, an award-winning journalist and former top editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will join Arizona State University as the Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics at the Cronkite School. read more
Cronkite Student Named Top 10 Scripps Howard Scholar (10.12.07)
Cronkite student Ryan Kost has been named one of the top 10 journalism students in the country by the Scripps Howard Foundation. He was awarded a $10,000 scholarship through the foundation’s Top Ten Scholarship Program. read more
Times, Sun Win New Award in Business Journalism (10.9.07)
Reporters at The New York Times and The Sun in Baltimore have been awarded the inaugural Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism announced. read more
Cronkite Students Dominate National Magazine Contest (10.9.07)
Cronkite students won more awards than students from any other university in the country in the 2007 Student Magazine Contest, sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. read more
Cronkite School Scores Fourth Win in NASA Contest (10.1.07)
For the fourth year in a row, public relations students in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication placed first in the NASA Means Business Competition. The year-long competition promotes science, technology, engineering and math education to middle and high school students. read more
Scholarship to Honor Arizona Republic Film Critic (9.20.07)
The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com are creating an endowed scholarship at the Cronkite School in the name of Republic film critic Bill Muller, who died Sept. 6. The scholarship will be awarded annually to a deserving journalism student. read more
Stardust Foundation Partners with ASU to Create H.S. Newsrooms (9.18.07)
The Stardust Foundation is making a $510,000 grant to the Cronkite School to fund a groundbreaking initiative to develop high school journalism programs in Arizona. The Scottsdale-based foundation will invest in multimedia classrooms at 10 selected high schools. read more
McGuire Launches Blog on Journalism and Business Ethics (9.17.07)
Tim J. McGuire, the Frank Russell Chair for the Business of Journalism in the Cronkite School, is launching a blog on the business of journalism and media ethics. He will write two to three times a week on trends in the rapidly changing news industry. read more
Forum Focuses on Media Coverage of Latino Issues (9.13.07)
Media coverage of Latino issues will be the topic of a forum at Arizona State University Sept. 22. Gilbert Bailon, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and editor of Al Dia, the leading Spanish-language daily newspaper in North Texas, will kick off the program, entitled “Media Coverage of Latino Issues – It’s Not Only Immigration.” read more
Arizona Newspaper Convention Features Cronkite Speakers (9.13.07)
Tim McGuire, the Frank Russell Chair in the Business of Journalism at the Cronkite School, will deliver the keynote address for the Arizona Newspapers Association annual meeting and fall convention. Other Cronkite faculty will lead sessions on topics ranging from computer-assisted reporting to managing a newsroom. read more
Former CNN Lead Anchor Named ASU Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism (8.9.07)
Aaron Brown, the former lead anchor for CNN, has been appointed the inaugural Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism at Arizona State University. Brown will join the full-time faculty of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in January. read more
Survey of Asian American Journalists Highlights Diversity Concerns (8.2.07)
Most members of the Asian American Journalists Association have positive feelings about the work they do, but they worry that media consolidation and newsroom cutbacks will weaken the profession’s commitment to diversity, according to a new survey conducted by the Cronkite School on behalf of the Asian American Journalists Association. read more
Most Newspapers Now Devote Less to Stock Tables, Study Finds (8.1.07)
Two-thirds of the nation’s daily newspapers still print stock market tables in some form, but virtually none offers a complete listing of market results, according to a study by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. read more
School Mourns Deaths of Four Killed in News Copter Crash (7.30.07)
Cronkite School Dean Christopher Callahan releases a statement following the news helicopter crash in Phoenix on July 27 that claimed four lives, including that of Jim Cox, a photojournalist for Channel 3 who was a 1993 Cronkite graduate. read more
LA Anchor Makes Gift to Name Room in New Cronkite Home (7.23.07)
Christine Devine, the Emmy Award-winning Los Angeles news anchor and 1987 graduate of the Cronkite School, is making a $50,000 gift to her alma mater to help kickoff a fund-raising campaign for the school’s new home. read more
Cronkite School Professor Named Outstanding Educator (7.16.07)
Associate Professor Sharon Bramlett-Solomon has been named Outstanding Educator for 2007 by the newspaper division of the nation’s leading journalism education organization. read more
Family Establishes Photojournalism Endowment in Honor of Late Son (7.9.07)
Troy and Betsy Crowder of Chandler are honoring the life and spirit of their late son, a photojournalist and Arizona State University graduate, by creating a photojournalism endowment in his name at the Cronkite School. read more
Jane Pauley Named 2007 Winner of Cronkite Award (6.25.07)
Jane Pauley, the long-time popular anchor of NBC’s “Today” show and founding co-host of “Dateline NBC,” will be this year’s recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. read more
BET Executive to Direct New Media Innovation Lab (6.22.07)
Retha Hill, a senior executive at BET and digital media leader who helped launch The Washington Post’s first Internet news operation, will join the Cronkite School as director of the New Media Innovation Lab. read more
Cronkite Student Finishes First in Hearst Championships (6.22.07)
Elias Johnson, a recent Cronkite School graduate, took first place in television reporting at the 2006-2007 Hearst National Championships in San Francisco. read more
Cronkite School Names First Director of High School Programs (6.12.07)
Anita Luera, a long-time journalist and past president of the Arizona Latino Media Association, is the first director of high school journalism programs for the Cronkite School. read more
Knight Grant to Launch Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship (5.23.07)
The Cronkite School will receive a major grant from the Knight Foundation to establish a new center devoted to the development of new media entrepreneurship and the creation of innovative digital media products. read more
Cronkite Students Dominate SPJ Nationals For Second Consecutive Year (5.18.07)
Cronkite students finished first in the Society of Professional Journalists national Mark of Excellence awards contest for the second consecutive year. read more
PBS Primetime Special Features Work of TV News Students (5.16.07)
A 30-minute primetime special on Eight/KAET, Arizona’s public television station, showcased the work of advanced television news students at the Cronkite School. read more
Cronkite School Primary Sponsor of IRE Conference (5.15.07)
The Cronkite School is one of the primary sponsors of this year’s Investigative Reporters and Editors conference to be held in Phoenix in June. read more
More Than 200 Graduate at Cronkite Convocation (5.11.07)
With former CNN anchor Aaron Brown delivering the keynote address, the Cronkite School graduated 196 bachelor’s degree candidates and 15 master’s degree candidates at its spring convocation. read more
Cronkite Students Sweep SPJ Regionals With 35 Awards (5.9.07)
Cronkite School students swept the Society of Professional Journalists regional awards for the seventh year in a row and the ninth time in 10 years, taking home 35 awards. read more
Former CNN Anchor to Give Convocation Address (5.1.07)
Award-winning broadcast journalist Aaron Brown will deliver the keynote address at the spring convocation for graduates of the Cronkite School. read more
Reynolds Center Study Explores Business Blogs (4.24.07)
Three-fourths of the nation’s largest newspapers now offer blogs on business-related topics, according to a study released by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University. read more
Cronkite School Places First in Nation in Hearst Competition (4.16.07)
The Cronkite School finished first in the nation in the annual Hearst Journalism Awards, often called the Pulitzer Prizes of college journalism. This year’s victory follows two consecutive second-place finishes and marks the school’s sixth consecutive Top 10 finish in the prestigious competition. read more
Cronkite Professor Receives NATAS Silver Circle Award (4.15.07)
Professor Donald Godfrey, a long-time member of the Cronkite faculty, has been named a recipient of the 2007 Silver Circle Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. read more
Cronkite Students Finish First Again in Broadcast Competition (4.4.07)
The Cronkite School is first in the nation for broadcast news in the prestigious Hearst Journalism Awards program. read more
Former Publisher Named Student Media Director, Weil Professor (3.23.07)
James N. Crutchfield, a former major newspaper publisher and editor, will become director of Student Media at Arizona State University and the Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Cronkite School. read more
Cronkite to Host New Reynolds Institute for H.S. Journalism Teachers (3.19.07)
The Cronkite School will help train high school journalism teachers from around the country through a new program created by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. read more
McGuire: Ethics Key to News Future (3.18.07)
Professor Tim McGuire, the Frank Russell Chair in the Business of Journalism, writes in The Arizona Republic that journalism ethics hold the key to the future of daily newspapers. read more
Cronkite Student Again Named Nation’s Best Collegiate TV Reporter (3.9.07)
For the first time ever, a student has won back-to-back awards as the nation’s best collegiate TV news reporter. read more
Pair Win Top Photojournalism Awards (3.9.07)
Two Cronkite students sweep the first collegiate awards given by the National Press Photographers Association. read more
Cronkite Dean Discusses School’s Future on New Podcast (3.6.07)
Dean Christopher Callahan talks about the future of the Cronkite School on a new podcast produced by the ASU Office of the President. listen
Walter Cronkite Breaks Ground for New Building (2.21.07)
Former CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite joined Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and ASU President Michael Crow to break ground on the new $71 million building that will house his journalism school in downtown Phoenix. read more
Design for New Cronkite Building Unveiled (2.21.07)
The Cronkite School’s new home in downtown Phoenix will be a six-story communications center with five newsrooms, eight digital labs, two TV studio, a public forum and a student resources center. read more
Dean: New Technology, Traditional Values Key to New Future (2.21.07)
Dean Christopher Callahan writes in The Arizona Republic that the future of journalism education must focus on both emerging media technologies and traditional journalism values. read more
Reynolds Center Sponsors Business Journalism Interns Nationally (2.12.07)
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is placing top business journalism students from universities around the country at major newspaper internships this summer. read more
Cronkite Joins Mayor, ASU President for Groundbreaking Ceremony (1.31.07)
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, ASU President Michael Crow and former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite will host a groundbreaking ceremony for the new building that will house the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and KAET/Eight, the ASU-operated public television station. read more
Cronkite News Service off to Fast Start (1.31.07)
The Cronkite School has launched a professional news service that is serving as a new source of in-depth stories on critical public policy issues for daily newspapers, TV stations and Web sites around the state. read more
Students Complete First Meredith/Cronkite Fellowship (1.24.07)
The Cronkite School, the Meredith Corp. and KPHO CBS 5 hosted 12 top minority journalism students from around the country as part of a new fellowship program designed to train the next generation of TV journalists. read more
Knight Chair, IRE Honor Three News Organizations (1.24.07)
The Knight Chair in Journalism at Arizona State University and Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. are honoring three news organizations for their use of social science research methods in investigative reporting. read more
Cronkite Student Takes First in National TV News Competition (12.22.06)
A portfolio of television stories produced by an Arizona State University journalism student was judged the best in the nation in the prestigious Hearst Broadcasting Awards competition. read more
Scripps Chief Urges Grads to be “Risk Takers” (12.15.06)
The head of the E.W. Scripps Co. urged graduating Cronkite students to be risk takers and help mold the future of a fast-changing media industry. “Our traditional media businesses are undergoing fundamental change,” Kenneth W. Lowe, president and chief executive officer of the Cincinnati-based media corporation, said during his fall convocation keynote address. read more
TV Executive Receives Outstanding Service Award (12.15.06)
Jack Clifford, a television industry leader for more than 50 years and an ardent supporter of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, is the recipient of this year’ Dean’s Award for Outstanding Service. read more
Republic Editor to Lead New Multimedia Program (12.11.06)
An Arizona Republic editor will serve as a visiting journalism professor at Arizona State University next year, directing a new multimedia reporting program at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication sponsored by The Republic. read more
Cronkite Students Win National Photojournalism Awards (12.8.06)
Two Cronkite School students have won top honors in a national photojournalism competition. read more
Reynolds Center Creates Awards for Investigative Reporting (12.5.06)
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is starting two new awards celebrating the best in print and online investigative business journalism. They will be named in honor of Don Barlett and Jim Steele, the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporting team. read more
McGuire: J Educators Need to Help News Industry (12.1.06)
Tim J. McGuire, the former Minneapolis Star-Tribune editor who now holds the Frank Russell Chair for the Business of Journalism at the Cronkite School, says cynical journalism educators who mock the beleaguered news industry should instead help media leaders seek innovative solutions to ensure quality journalism. read more
Lecture Series Created in Honor of Longtime Instructor (11.20.06)
The Cronkite School is launching a lecture series in honor of Paul J. Schatt, the veteran Arizona Republic editor who taught at the school for more than 30 years. read more
Phoenix City Council Approves $71 Million for New Cronkite Building (11.16.06)
The Phoenix City Council approved a $71 million plan to design and build a six-story building that will house the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and KAET-TV, the public television station operated by Arizona State University. read more
TV Executive Creates Broadcast News Endowment (11.14.06)
Jack Clifford, a veteran TV executive who created the Food Network, is giving $500,000 to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication to create an endowment for the school’s award-winning broadcast journalism program. In addition, Clifford will spearhead a $5 million fund-raising campaign for the program. read more
Tom Brokaw Receives Walter Cronkite Award (11.14.06)
More than 1,200 invited guests joined Walter Cronkite in honoring one of the most revered journalists in American history, Tom Brokaw, at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s 23rd annual luncheon in Phoenix. read more
Higuera Named Deputy Director of Reynolds Center (11.9.06)
Jonathan Higuera, a veteran business reporter for The Arizona Republic, has been named deputy director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. read more
Arizona Republic, Cronkite School Launch Multimedia Reporting Project (11.8.06)
The Arizona Republic and the Cronkite School are launching a multimedia reporting program that will prepare students for 21st century newsgathering while providing breaking news content for azcentral.com, the Republic’s news Web site. read more
Election Night Coverage Live on Cable (11.7.06)
More than 60 Cronkite students, faculty and staff produced more than two hours of live Arizona election night coverage for local cable stations. read more
Fellows Selected for Business Journalism Program (11.7.06)
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is designating 15 educators from major universities as fellows for its inaugural Business Journalism Professor Seminar. read more
Two Join Cronkite School Alumni Hall of Fame (10.31.06)
A national radio executive and a ground-breaking Native American journalist will be the newest inductees into the Cronkite School Alumni Hall of Fame. Susan Karis and Mary Kim Titla will be recognized Nov. 14 at the school’s 23rd Annual Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Lunch. read more
TV Reports by Cronkite Students Featured on MSNBC (10.23.06)
Top broadcast news students at the Cronkite School now have their best TV work featured on MSNBC under a new partnership with the national news network. read more
Award-Winning Editor Named Assistant Dean at Cronkite School (10.19.06)
Kristin Gilger, an award-winning journalist who was a top editor at The Arizona Republic before directing student media at Arizona State University, will join the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication as assistant dean in charge of professional programs. read more
Publisher Named Inaugural Gaylord Visiting Professor (10.9.06)
James N. Crutchfield, a top editor who became one of the nation’s only African American publishers of a major metropolitan newspaper, will join the Cronkite School for the spring semester as the first Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics. read more
ASU Creates New Media Innovation Lab (9.25.06)
A national leader in online news is leading a new lab that will help create multimedia products for Gannett and other news companies. read more
PR Students Win Top NASA Award (9.20.06)
Public relations students at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication claimed victory at the NASA Means Business competition for the third year in a row. read more
Reynolds Center Launches New Programs (9.13.06)
The Reynolds Center launches new initiatives to improve business journalism training at the university level. read more
Cronkite Alum Named Diamondbacks President (9.6.06)
Derrick Hall, a Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame member, is the new president of the Arizona Diamondbacks. read more
Cronkite Students, Professor Win National Awards (8.15.06)
Cronkite students won six national magazine awards while one of their teachers was named the nation’s top “promising professor” here at the annual meeting of journalism educators. read more
Meredith Corp. Starts Fellowship Program (8.9.06)
Meredith Corp., CBS 5 and the Cronkite School are launching a nationwide fellowship program for minority broadcast journalism students. read more
Fulton Challenge Nets $100,000 for School (8.9.06)
The Cronkite School raised more than $100,000 from a fundraising challenge from philanthropists Ira and Mary Lou Fulton. read more
AP Exec to Lead Student-run News Service (7.18.06)
Steve Elliott, former Phoenix bureau chief for The Associated Press, will be the founding director of the Cronkite News Service print program. read more
Cronkite-NAHJ Study Finds Little Coverage of Latinos (6.14.06)
A new national study conducted by the Cronkite School for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists finds coverage of Latinos is sorely lacking in U.S. news magazines. read more
Pair of Top TV Journalists Join Cronkite Faculty (6.12.06)
Two leading Phoenix journalists are joining the faculty to expand the Cronkite School’s award-winning TV newscast and create a new program to provide news packages to stations around the state. read more
Cronkite Students Dominate 'Best of the West,' Other Competitions (6.8.06)
Cronkite newspaper students dominate the “Best of the West” journalism competition while students specializing in online, public relations and magazines all are winning national and regional accolades. read more
Historic Gift Brings Business Journalism Center to Cronkite (6.2.06)
The Cronkite School is the new home of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, thanks to a $3.5 million grant that is the largest gift in school history. read more
Arizona Republic Publishes Cronkite Students’ Don Bolles Project (5.29.06)
The Arizona Republic and its Web site, azcentral.com, published a nine-story package created by a Cronkite School class that explores the slaying of investigative reporter Don Bolles on the 30th anniversary of his murder. read more
Cronkite Students Top Nation in National SPJ Competition (5.26.06)
Students from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication won more national awards in this year’s Society of Professional Journalist’s intercollegiate journalism competition than any other school in the nation. read more
Aaron Brown Joins Cronkite School for Spring Semester (5.16.06)
Aaron Brown, the former lead anchor for CNN, will join the Cronkite School faculty for Spring ’07 as the Barrett Honors College’s John J. Rhodes Chair. read more
Clark-Johnson Tells Grads about Media Industry’s “New World Order” (5.12.06)
Top newspaper executive Sue Clark-Johnson told graduating Cronkite School students that the media world is in the midst of a “wild-fire transition” that presents both great challenges and unparalleled opportunities. read more
Tom Brokaw Next Cronkite Award of Excellence Recipient (4.10.06)
Tom Brokaw, who anchored NBC’s nightly newscast for more than 20 years, will be this year’s recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. read more
Associate Dean Barrett Named Louise Solheim Professor (4.8.06)
Cronkite School Associate Dean Marianne Barrett is named the Solheim Professor, thanks to a generous gift from philanthropist Louise Solheim. read more
Top TV Executives Look at Future of Television at Cronkite Forum (4.7.06)
The general managers of eight major television stations in Phoenix met at a Cronkite School forum to discuss the future of local television in the wake of the digital technological revolution. Read Laura Newpoff’s story from the Business Journal of Phoenix. read more
Cronkite Student Named Top Collegiate TV Reporter (4.1.06)
A student from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been named the top collegiate television reporter in the United States. read more
Cronkite Student Wins First NLGJA Leroy Aarons National Scholarship (3.16.06)
Dennis Shane Mitchell, a Cronkite School sophomore who was Arizona’s high school journalist of the year two years ago, was named the inaugural recipient of the Leroy F. Aarons Scholarship from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalist Association. read more
Cronkite/Mayo Study Discovers Faulty Medical News Coverage (3.16.06)
Twenty percent of all examined newspaper articles about common neurological conditions had medical errors or exaggerations, according to a new study by Mayo Clinic physicians and Cronkite School researchers. read more
Phoenix Vote Will Help Build New Cronkite Building (3.15.06)
The Cronkite School will be housed in a new, state-of-the-art journalism complex in downtown Phoenix by 2008 thanks to voters’ overwhelming approval of $223 million in bond money to help fund ASU’s new Downtown Phoenix campus. read more
New Visiting Professorship in Honor of Pioneering Newswoman (3.8.06)
A top journalist will join the Cronkite School each spring semester as the Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor of Journalism Ethics thanks to a generous gift from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. read more
Professor Wins National Award for Web Site (2.28.06)
Carol Schwalbe won the Broadcast Education Association’s Best of Competition for an innovative and in-depth Web site she created for her Online Media class. read more
School to Conduct Analysis of Latino Coverage for NAHJ (2.3.06)
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists selected the Cronkite School to conduct an in-depth analysis of coverage of Latinos by the nation’s three leading news magazines. read more
Cronkite Board Member Joins B-School Faculty (2.1.06)
Ray Artigue, a longtime member of the Cronkite Endowment Board and a member of the Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame, is stepping down from his job as senior vice president of the Phoenix Suns to join ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business as executive director of its MBA Sports Business program. read more
Photojournalism Team to Explore "Children of the Borderlands" (1.14.06)
A team from the Cronkite School will conduct an in-depth photojournalism project in Mexico exploring the plight of children living in the borderlands region thanks to a generous gift from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. read more
Cronkite Students Team With Arizona Republic on Web Experiment (1.13.06)
Cronkite School students spent part of their Christmas holiday participating in an experimental collaboration between the school and the Arizona Republic. Students equipped with laptops provided azcentral.com users with real-time reports about traffic at the airport and area malls. Republic editors declared the experiment a success in this story in Gannett News Watch. read more
Cronkite Student Takes First in National Radio Competition (1.13.06)
Michiko Howlett, a Cronkite student and news director of the campus radio station, won first place for radio feature reporting in the nation’s most prestigious intercollegiate journalism competition, the Hearst Awards. read more
School Takes First in National Feature Writing Contest (1.12.06)
The Cronkite School took first place for newspaper feature writing in the nation’s most prestigious intercollegiate journalism competition, with students taking first and 16th place. read more
Ulrich Receives Inaugural Dean’s Award for Outstanding Service (12.16.05)
Dean Christopher Callahan presented former Regent Donald Ulrich the first-ever Dean’s Award for Outstanding Service in recognition of Ulrich’s years of advocacy on behalf of the Cronkite School. read more
Former Top Newspaper Editor to Join Cronkite Faculty (12.9.05)
Tim J. McGuire, the former editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and a leading voice in newspapers for more than 20 years, will join the Cronkite School as the Frank Russell Chair in August. read more
Fellner Earns Fulbright Honors (12.5.05)
Dan H. Fellner, a Cronkite School faculty associate, has received a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach journalism and public relations at Moldova State University in Chisinau, Moldova, for five months beginning in January. read more
Longtime Faculty Associate, Republic Editor Dies (11.21.05)
Paul Schatt, an Arizona Republic editor who taught news reporting to hundreds of journalism students at Arizona State University over the past 30 years, died at the age of 60. read more
Recent Graduate Wins Top Award for In-Depth Reporting (11.4.05)
William Pitts won the Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence award for in-depth radio reporting for his examination of military training in a Phoenix suburb. read more
Two News Anchors Inducted into Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame (11.3.05)
Two major-market television news anchors are the newest members of the Cronkite School Alumni Hall of Fame. Ellen Leyva, a 1986 graduate of the school, is a 5 p.m. co-anchor on KABC-TV in Los Angeles. Katie Raml, a 1999 graduate, is a 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. co-anchor on ABC15 in Phoenix. read more
Pulitzer Winner to Receive Cronkite Award (10.24.05)
Dave Barry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the Miami Herald, will receive the 2005 Walter Cronkite Award for journalistic excellence. read more
ASU Names Callahan Founding Dean of Cronkite School of Journalism (5.26.05)
Christopher Callahan, who helped lead the University of Maryland’s journalism program to national prominence as the school’s associate dean, will become the founding dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in August 2005. The Cronkite School, which has been part of ASU’s College of Public Programs, will become a separate unit on July 1. read more
