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ASU's Cronkite School is expanding its leadership team to keep up with the growing demand for educational opportunities in the fields of sports journalism and digital media.

Arizona Republic Publisher Mi-Ai Parrish, an award-winning journalist and media executive, will be the inaugural Sue Clark-Johnson Professor in Media Innovation and Leadership at the Cronkite School, ASU announced today.

Adelaida Severson, who leads one of the nation's top satellite communications companies, was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame at ASU's Cronkite School today.

Cronkite School Dean Christopher Callahan issues a statement regarding the 2015 Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Univision Arizona, the state's most-watched Spanish-language television station, is now broadcasting Cronkite Noticias, a 30-minute news program produced by bilingual ASU students on important Latino community and statewide issues.

The recently launched News Co/Lab at ASU's Cronkite School announced new support from the Rita Allen Foundation.

Paola Boivin, the award-winning sports columnist who worked for The Arizona Republic for more than 20 years and now teaches at ASU's Cronkite School, is being inducted to the 2017 Arizona Sports Hall of Fame today.

ASU's Cronkite School dedicated its largest teaching space in honor of Elizabeth Murphy Burns and Richard Burns of Morgan Murphy Media, the pioneering media company headquartered in Wisconsin.

A Chicago Tribune investigation into the mistreatment of disabled adults in Illinois group homes won the top honor in the 2017 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability.

Arizona PBS won six regional Emmy Awards, including one for a special on the legacy of Walter Cronkite as well as the top public service award, while ASU students at the Cronkite School dominated the intercollegiate contest.

ASU's Cronkite School is presenting Judy Woodruff and the late Gwen Ifill, the award-winning co-anchors and managing editors of the "PBS NewsHour," with the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Thursday, Oct. 19.

Chicago Tribune; The Post-Courier, and MedPage Today won gold, silver and bronze awards, respectively, in the 11th annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Journalism.

ASU's Cronkite School today launched News Co/Lab, a collaborative lab aimed at helping the public find new ways of understanding and engaging with news and information. News Co/Lab's initial funder is the Facebook Journalism Project, and McClatchy is its first news media partner.

To kick off Homecoming 2017 at ASU, the Cronkite School is inviting alumni, students and faculty to Cronkite Day, an annual large-scale celebration on Friday, Oct. 27.

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.

A team of ASU students at the Cronkite School won a top multimedia award from the nation's leading professional organization dedicated to American Indian coverage.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has awarded five public media stations, led by Arizona PBS, a grant to establish a regional news collaboration to enhance and expand coverage of sustainability issues.

Arizona PBS received 12 Emmy nominations from the Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, while ASU students at the Cronkite School dominated the intercollegiate contest.

Anita Helt, a veteran television executive who leads the highly-rated ABC affiliate in Phoenix, is the new president of the Cronkite Endowment Board of Trustees at ASU's Cronkite School.

Floyd Abrams, the prominent First Amendment attorney who represented The New York Times in the landmark Pentagon Papers Supreme Court case, is coming to ASU to discuss freedom of speech on campus.

A veteran editor who led Uruguay's largest newspaper, a South African strategic communications executive dedicated to eradicating the legacy of apartheid and a Cambodian reporter who was shot at while covering a story are among the 12 global journalists and communicators studying at ASU.