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Entries are now being accepted for the 2020 Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, the nation's top investigative business journalism contest.

Students at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University won 10 national Society of Professional Journalists awards "€“ more than any other university in the nation "€“ in a competition that honors the best in student journalism.

The National Center on Disability and Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University has launched a campaign to encourage news coverage of people with disabilities in the run-up to the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The top college journalism students from across the country will participate in a week of virtual training at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication as part of a digital journalism internship program through the Dow Jones News Fund.

The National Center on Disability and Journalism is now accepting entries for the 2020 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability, the only journalism contest devoted exclusively to disability coverage.

The ceremony marked Cronkite's first virtual convocation as more than 400 graduates were recognized along with their families, many of whom attended online and posted congratulatory messages on the school's YouTube and Facebook Live feeds.

Andrew Leckey, who has built the business journalism program at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication into a national powerhouse, is retiring after 14 years at Arizona State University.

A five-foot tall robot is helping keep Arizona PBS on the air. For the past month, since the COVID-19 pandemic sent most Arizona State University staff home to work, the telepresence robot, nicknamed Scotty, has been key to keeping the public television station up and running.

Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is supporting public media leaders as they navigate newsroom coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Journalism sophomore Ellie Borst interviewed for five internships at three different companies Friday "€“ all without leaving her bedroom. Borst was one of 56 students in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University who participated in the school's first virtual internship day.

A new report authored by Leonard Downie, Jr., former editor of The Washington Post and a journalism professor at Arizona State University, documents the Trump administration's attacks on U.S. news organizations and the consequences for media credibility and a free press.

Arizona State University journalism students once again dominated the Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence Awards competition, winning a total of 53 awards, more than the combined total of all other large schools in the competition.

The Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative, based at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has won the top collegiate award for investigative journalism for its in-depth report on natural disaster response.

An estimated 1 million Arizonans watched a live, hour-long virtual town hall with Gov. Doug Ducey answering questions about COVID-19's health, economic and educational impact on the state.

Students in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University swept the 2019 Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) contest, winning all three of the student awards given.

TV and radio stations across Arizona will simulcast a live hour-long interview with Gov. Doug Ducey to explore the impact of coronavirus on the state.

As ASU transitioned to an online learning environment, faculty and staff at the Cronkite School saw it as an opportunity to innovate.

Cronkite Associate Dean Named Dean of Newhouse School.

John Craft, the Cronkite School's longest-serving faculty member, is retiring after nearly five decades at the school.

The school will use a $225,000 investment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to match creators of cutting-edge tools with local newsrooms willing to test them.

Cronkite students earned honors in 18 different broadcast categories, including two entries that received the prestigious Best of Festival recognition.