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The Cronkite Endowment Board of Trustees
The Cronkite Endowment Board of Trustees was created in 1983 to support the Cronkite School. The board is composed of top media leaders from across Phoenix, the nation’s fifth largest city, and from around the Valley. Newspaper editors and publishers, television and radio station general managers, magazine editors and publishers, public relations executives and other industry leaders all serve on the board.
Cronkite School Dean Christopher Callahan calls the Cronkite Endowment Board of Trustees “the most influential and hardest working board of its type in journalism education.” The board meets quarterly to plan the school’s annual Cronkite Luncheon, at which the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism is presented each year to a leading journalist. The event is one of the most popular in the Valley, with more than 1,000 people attending.
The board provides important counsel and advice to the dean on a wide array of issues facing the school. Board members also regularly offer internships to Cronkite students and many personally mentor students.
“The Cronkite Endowment Board is one of our school’s biggest assets,” Callahan said. “The board’s partnership with and dedication to the Cronkite School through the years has helped create a world-class journalism program.”
Win Holden, publisher of Arizona Highways Magazine, is serving as the board president in 2008.
Current board members include:
- Ray Artigue, executive director, Sports Business, MBA, Carey School of Business, ASU
- Susan Bitter Smith, executive director, Arizona-New Mexico Cable Communications Association
- David Bodney, partner, Steptoe & Johnson, LLP
- Art Brooks, president and CEO, Arizona Broadcasters Association
- Christopher Callahan, dean, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication
- Paula Casey, executive director, Arizona Newspapers Association
- Tom Chauncey, attorney, Gust Rosenfeld
- Jack Clifford, president, Clifford Consulting
- Mike Connelly, general manager, Fox Sports Net Arizona
- Araceli de Leon, general manager, Telemundo Arizona - NBCU
- Michael Dee, president, Arizona Foothills Magazine
- Tom Duran, general manager, Entravision Communications
- Elvira Espinoza, publisher, La Voz Publishing, LLC
- Nat Galvin, general manager, The Edge 1039 and Power 98.3
- Greg Giczi, general manager, KAET-TV, Channel 8
- Steve Hammel, general manager, KPHO-TV CBS 5 News
- Erik Hellum, president, GAPWest Broadcasting
- Don Henninger, publisher, Business Journal
- Win Holden, publisher, Arizona Highways Magazine
- Roger Hurni, partner, Off Madison Avenue
- John Jacobs, general manager, Clear Channel Outdoor
- Laura Jordan, owner, The Jordan Group, Inc.
- Susan Karis, executive vice president of operations/Western Region, Clear Channel Radio
- Dottie Kobik, president, Monarch Events Inc.
- Ken Kwilosz, vice president/general manager, KPHE - TV/Lotus TV
- Ginger Lamb, vice president and publisher, Arizona Capital Times
- Fritz Leigh, associate dean, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication
- Randy Lovely, editor, The Arizona Republic
- Fran Mallace, vice president/general manager, Cox Media
- Mary McEvilly Hernandez, vice president, Univision Radio
- Joe Milner, professor emeritus
- John Misner, president and general manager, KPNX-TV Channel 12
- Art Mobley, president and CEO, World Wide Radio
- Manny Molina, president, Molina Media Group
- Julie Moreno, CEO and publisher, The Tribune
- Mary Morrison, Mary M Media
- Pat Nevin, general manager, KSAZ-TV
- Mary O'Hanlon, president, Barclay Communications Inc.
- Jose Luis Padilla, vice president and general manager, Univision
- Jose Rodiles, general manager, KVIB-FM
- Carleton Rosenburgh, senior vice president - Newspaper Division (Retired), Gannett Co. Inc.
- Mark Steinmetz, independent media owner and operator
- Robert Stieve, editor, Arizona Highways Magazine
- Loren Tapahe, publisher, Arizona Native Scene
- James Taszarek, president, TazMedia Inc.
- Janice Todd, vice president and general manager, ABC 15 KNXV-TV
- Alicia Wadas, director of public relations, The Lavidge Co.
- Mark Waters, senior vice president and market manager, CBS Radio
- Clancy Woods, president, Sporting News Radio
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Past presidents of the Cronkite Endowment Board of Trustees are:
2006-07: Manny Molina,
president, Molina Media Group
2004-05: Win Holden,
publisher, Arizona Highways Magazine
2002-03: Ray Artigue,
senior vice president, Phoenix Suns
2000-01: Brad Nilsen,
general manager, KNXV-TV
1998-99: Susan Bitter Smith,
executive director,
Arizona-New Mexico Cable
Communications Association
1996-97: Bill Miller,
executive vice president, MAC America Communication
1994-95: Sanford Schwartz,
publisher, Tribune Newspapers
1992-93: Jim Taszarek,
vice president and general manager, KTAR/KKLT Radio
1989-91: Howard E. Wall,
president, Post-Newsweek Cable Co.
1986-88: C. E. “Pep” Cooney, president and general manager, KPNX-TV
1983-85: Darrow “Duke” Tully, publisher, The Arizona Republic
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