Media Partnerships

Numerous media outlets publish and broadcast work produced by Cronkite students each year and extend internships and jobs to students in their professional newsrooms. In addition to those ongoing opportunities, the Cronkite School has formal partnerships with several major media corporations that give students unmatched professional experience in areas ranging from sports reporting to multimedia and broadcast production.

These partnerships include:

The Arizona Republic – Multimedia Reporting Class

Each year, more than three dozen Cronkite students report breaking news for azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic as part of a multimedia reporting class under the direction of Arizona Republic Editor-in-Residence Aric Johnson. The students not only receive course credit but are paid and gain valuable real-world experience reporting on news in real time.

The Arizona Republic and 12 News – AZ Fact Check

Beginning in the summer of 2010, Cronkite students have worked with reporters and producers at The Arizona Republic and 12 News to fact-check claims made by political candidates and campaigns as well as by political figures for AZ Fact Check. The student-interns are paid, and their work appears on azfactcheck.com, part of azcentral.com.

News21 Initiative Media Partners

Students in the Carnegie-Knight News21 Initiative, headquartered at the Cronkite School, work on a major investigative reporting project each summer covering an issue of national importance. Past topics have included transportation safety in America, who can vote and food safety. Stories produced by these projects have been published in The Washington Post, msnbc.com, NPR and numerous others.

Fox Sports Arizona Partnership

From a studio set inside the Cronkite School building, Fox Sports produces 100 total pre-/post-game programs for Phoenix Suns road games. Students of all levels have the opportunity to apply for apprenticeship opportunities that provide valuable experience working side-by-side with seasoned sports producers in both the editorial and production portions of the broadcast.

FoxSports Arizona – Sports Marketing Project

Each semester, students in a sports marketing class develop and pitch promotional campaigns for Fox Sports Arizona. A winning campaign by ASU students focused on the relationship between Arizona sports fans and their teams and developed the slogan, “We bring the game home.”

FoxSports Arizona – Sun Devils 101

This magazine-style show was conceived and created by Cronkite students and covers ASU athletics and student-athletes. The show airs on Fox Sports Arizona.

Meredith/CBS5 Fellowship

For one week in January, top minority broadcast journalism students come from around the country to do an intense fellowship at the Cronkite School. They receive hands-on experience working in the CBS 5 newsroom with KPHO reporters, producers, editors and videographers, supplemented by training by instructors from the Cronkite School.

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, MLB.com, San Diego Union-Tribune, The Arizona Republic – Spring Training Coverage Partners

A partnership with four major media outlets puts Cronkite students centerfield, providing those interested in careers in sports journalism a unique opportunity to cover Major League Baseball spring training, specifically of the Milwaukee Brewers, the San Diego Padres and the Arizona Diamondbacks, for major metropolitan news outlets. The course is taught by longtime sports journalists.

NBC News

NBC News has created 12 exclusive-to-Cronkite-student internships every year at NBC News properties in New York, Washington, Chicago, Atlanta and Los Angeles. Each semester, four competitively selected interns each semester work side by side with professionals at the network, researching and producing news stories.

PBS Eight

Four nights a week, the Cronkite School’s NewsWatch professional immersion program produces a live, student-produced 30-minute newscast that airs on Arizona PBS to 1.2 million households statewide. The newscast was named Best Student Newscast in 2009-10 by the Broadcast Education Association.

Univision – Spanish-language Newscast

Students in Cronkite NewsWatch periodically produce a Spanish-language version of the newscast, NewsWatch en Espanol, that airs on Univision’s TeleFutura network in Phoenix.

Village Voice Digital Media Fellowship

This summer fellowship for minority students provides an intensive, 10-week, paid summer experience that immerses students in Web and digital media and has students working with staff of the Village Voice family of 18 websites and newspapers. Fellows receive training in blogging, photography, video, audio and social media and will produce original reported material for Village Voice online publications. Participants are paid, and housing is provided.