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Emmy Award-Winning Announcer Joins Cronkite School to Teach Sports Journalism
Gary Thorne, a lead play-by-play announcer for the Baltimore Orioles on the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network, will be joining Arizona State University as a visiting professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
ASU Student to Receive National Business Reporting Award
Andres Guerra Luz, a new graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, will receive the top student business reporting award from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.
NPR's Top News Executive Nancy C. Barnes Urges Graduates to Embrace Change, Not Fear It
Nancy C. Barnes, senior vice president for news at National Public Radio, told new journalism graduates of ASU Tuesday they need to be prepared to celebrate change, not resist it.
Cronkite's News21 Wins RFK Award for 'Hate in America' Project
Students in the Carnegie-Knight News21 investigative reporting project at the Cronkite School are winners of the 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.
Cronkite Students Win Most National SPJ Student Awards
Journalism students at Arizona State University have 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.
NCDJ Accepting Entries in Annual Disability Reporting Contest
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.
Award-Winning Communications Leader and Cronkite Alumna to Direct PR Lab
Lisa Schmidtke, an award-winning marketing, public relations and communications professional and alumna of Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has joined the Cronkite School as its Public Relations Lab director.
NPR Leader Barnes to Keynote Cronkite Convocation
Nancy Barnes, senior vice president for news at NPR, will deliver the keynote speech at the Cronkite Spring 2019 Convocation for ASU's Cronkite School students.
Cronkite Students Dominate SPJ Regional Competition, Winning 47 Awards
Students at ASU's Cronkite School took home dozens of awards at the regional Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence Awards competition, including the most first-place honors in the past decade.
National Native American News Outlet Moving to Cronkite School
Indian Country Today, the national news organization devoted to coverage of Native American issues and communities, is moving from Washington to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication on Arizona State University's Downtown Phoenix campus.
Two Cronkite Students to Produce Pivotal Content during Final Four
For a third consecutive year, two seniors from Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication are contributing news coverage of the NCAA Final Four.
Cronkite School, Mayo Clinic Accepting Applications for Medical Journalism Fellowship Program
Journalists interested in learning more about the changing world of medicine are encouraged to apply for a Mayo Clinic-Cronkite Fellowship at ASU's Cronkite School this summer.
CPB, ASU's Cronkite School Announce Public Media Editorial Integrity and Leadership Fellows
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Cronkite School at ASU are proud to announce the 53 fellows selected to participate in the Editorial Integrity and Leadership Initiative.
Cronkite Student Wins New York Times Journalism Contest
An ASU student at the Cronkite School has won a national contest to accompany New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof on a reporting trip this year.
Award-Winning Investigations Editor to Give Annual Schatt Lecture
Maud Beelman, the award-winning investigations editor who leads the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at ASU's Cronkite School, is the keynote speaker for the 13th annual Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture Monday, March 11.
Cronkite School Awarded NAB Grant to Bring Augmented Reality to Weather Reports
The National Association of Broadcasters has invested in an innovative project at Arizona State University that will use augmented reality for television weather reports. The experiment, called "AR Stories," will give viewers enhanced weather reports either through broadcast television or smartphones.
Cronkite Students Win Big at 2019 BEA Festival of Media Arts
ASU students once again won the most news awards in the Broadcast Education Association's annual Festival of Media Arts national competition.
NCDJ Releases Disability Language Style Guide in Spanish
The National Center on Disability and Journalism at ASU has released its popular disability language style guide in Spanish.
Cronkite Accepting Applications for Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute
College journalism professors interested in introducing entrepreneurial concepts and practices into their courses are encouraged to apply for the Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute at ASU's Cronkite School.
Cronkite School Opens Applications for High School Summer Camps
ASU's Cronkite School is inviting top-performing high school students to participate in summer camps focusing on broadcast and digital journalism, sports broadcasting and digital media innovation.
Cronkite School Adds Professorship Focused on Native Americans
ASU is creating the nation's first named journalism professorship that will focus on the news coverage and media portrayals of Native American