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Two innovative multimedia reporting projects, produced by students at ASU's Cronkite School, took top honors at one of the nation's leading digital journalism award contests.

Leonard Downie Jr., Weil Family Professor of Journalism, and Cronkite School Dean Christopher Callahan pen a column on the new Howard Center and the importance of investigative journalism.

A veteran BBC journalist stationed in Nepal, an Egyptian TV anchor and a Hungarian business journalist are among the 11 international journalists and communicators studying this year at ASU.

Arizona PBS received 13 Emmy nominations from the Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, while ASU students from the Cronkite School dominated the intercollegiate contest with 18 nominations.

Leading local television news executives from across the country are at ASU's Cronkite School to take part in a new program designed to spark innovation and change at their stations.

Political journalists from The Washington Post, the religion editor of CNN and a top communications executive at Intel Corp. are among the headliners of a speaker series this fall at ASU's Cronkite School.

The Carnegie-Knight News21 program, a national multi-university reporting initiative headquartered at ASU's Cronkite School, released a major multimedia investigation today about the growing climate of hate in the United States.

Lori Todd, the senior social media editor for NPR, is joining ASU to lead the digital desk of Cronkite News, the student-operated, faculty-led news division of Arizona PBS at the the Cronkite School.

In a move to advance deeply-researched watchdog journalism, the Scripps Howard Foundation today announced a $6 million investment toward the creation of two centers for investigative journalism.

ASU's Cronkite School is now offering new online degrees as well as an innovative professional immersion program to help students launch careers focused on digital strategy, audience engagement and social media.

Anderson Cooper, the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning prime-time anchor at CNN, will be the recipient of the 2018 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, ASU announced today.

Carnegie-Knight News21, the multi-university in-depth journalism collaborative based at ASU's Cronkite School, won the Student Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Digital Reporting for a second consecutive year.

Twenty high school students from across Arizona are part of an intensive, two-week media innovation training camp.

News coverage of Native American issues, a top priority for ASU's Cronkite School, is being recognized nationally.

Twenty-eight high school students are at ASU's Cronkite School this week to receive in-depth training in multimedia journalism.

Top student journalists from across the country are at ASU's Cronkite School for intensive journalism training as part of a special internship program through Dow Jones News Fund.

Journalists from the The New York Times, CBS News, The Washington Post and Univision are among the participants of a new medical journalism program created by the Mayo Clinic and ASU's Cronkite School.

Andrew Heyward, a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab who served for nearly a decade as president of CBS News, is joining ASU's Cronkite School in an initiative designed to advance innovation in local television news.

The National Center on Disability and Journalism at ASU has received a $300,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to expand its mission of improving media coverage and public understanding of disability issues.

For the 18th year in a row, students at ASU's Cronkite School dominated the regional Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence Awards competition.

ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus is launching a new pilot program designed to promote healthy living by adding new snack and beverage options to its vending machines.