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The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University will partner with the University of Oklahoma's Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication to expand coverage of indigenous communities.

Fernanda Santos, a Southwest Borderlands Initiative Professor at the Cronkite School, will write at least once a month on policies and issues in the Southwest for The Washington Post's Opinions section.

"Life Is"€¦" was simulcast on Jan. 12 in English and Spanish on all major commercial television stations in the state, as well as on Arizona PBS and Spanish-language stations.

William C. Rhoden, an award-winning national sports writer and visiting professional at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will be inducted into the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame this summer.

The first class of fellows began their yearlong assignments at five nonprofit news organizations with strong commitments to investigative journalism.

The Public Relations Lab took home three Gold awards at the 2020 NYX Marcom Awards while the Digital Audiences Lab secured three Gold awards at the Education Digital Marketing Awards and one award at the 2020 Marketing Communication (MarCom) Awards.

The symposium is an opportunity to showcase and award academic research by current Cronkite graduate and undergraduate students.

Arizona PBS will kick off its 60-year anniversary in January with a slate of new programming and new ways to provide content.

Veteran investigative journalist Fernando Diaz and Juan Arredondo, Cronkite's first visiting professor in visual journalism, will begin teaching in January.

Michaels, considered one of the top sportscasters in the industry, has called some of the notable sporting events of all time.

Jack Harris, a recent graduate from Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, won the General Excellence Award in the student category from the Asian American Journalists Association.

Indian Country Today Editor Mark Trahant also encouraged students to reshape journalism with their ideas.

Silcock, affectionately known as "Dr. Bill," will retire after nearly 20 years at the Cronkite School, where he developed the school's study abroad programs and cultivated a relationship with the U.S. State Department, which led to a series of grants that expanded the school's footprint abroad and trained journalists from around the world.

Five professors from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication will discuss investigative journalism, misinformation in the media and other topics during Arizona State University's Innovation Week and Innovation Quarter.

Dean Baquet, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is the first Black executive editor to lead both The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, will be honored on March 25.

The coronavirus may have rattled the world's restaurant industry, but chefs and restaurateurs throughout Arizona aren't throwing in the kitchen towel just yet. In fact, they're reimagining innovative takeout menus, and Arizona PBS is highlighting those menus through a new digital-first mini-series starting Dec. 10.

Retha Hill, director of the New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been named one of 12 winners and awarded a grant by the 2020 Online News Association's (ONA) Journalism 360 Challenge.

Listeners will now be able to say "Alexa, play Cronkite News" to access briefings on their Amazon smart device.

Andrew Howard won Story of the Year in the breaking news category from the Associated College Press (ACP) for his story on Kurt Volker's resignation.

The Cronkite School earned a total of five awards, the most of any school in the annual competition, and received top honors in three collegiate categories.

The awards are named for the renowned investigative team of Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, and sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.