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Student and community health took a major stride with the grand opening of ASU's Sun Devil Fitness Complex, a $24.1 million student recreation center in the heart of Downtown Phoenix.

A Tampa Bay Times/Center for Investigative Reporting joint project, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal won gold, silver and bronze awards respectively in the seventh annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism.

For the first time, the Committee to Protect Journalists is conducting a major investigation, led by Leonard Downie Jr., Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Cronkite School, on attacks to press freedoms by the U.S. government.

ASU students are producing in-depth news radio stories for NPR member station KJZZ under a new partnership between the radio station and the Cronkite School.

The Valley of the Sun YMCA and ASU are hosting the inaugural Y Race Fitness Fest, an interactive community health event and expo, on Oct. 18 at Civic Space Park on ASU's downtown Phoenix campus.

Eighteen journalism students will be able to participate in the Carnegie-Knight News21 program over the next three years, thanks to the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.

The Cronkite School is hosting the second annual Cronkite Day, a large-scale alumni celebration, on Oct. 18 as part of ASU's Homecoming Weekend.

The president of the world's largest public relations firm, a staff writer for The New Yorker and three Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists will be part of a public lecture series this fall at ASU's Cronkite School.

Leading media figures from the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland will discuss who can create media in a digital world in a one-day symposium hosted by ASU on Sept. 16 at Dublin City University.

A documentary filmmaker from Pakistan, a communications coordinator from Brazil and a public relations professional from Croatia are among the 10 new Humphrey Fellows at the Cronkite School at ASU this year.

The Carnegie-Knight News21 program, a national multi-university reporting initiative, today released a major national investigation into the enduring battles facing post-9/11 veterans.

A Carnegie-Knight News21 investigation into voting rights produced at ASU was honored as the top online news project of the year by the National Association of Black Journalists.

Two veteran journalists have been named Reynolds Visiting Business Journalism Professors at California State University, Fullerton and the University of Oklahoma under a $1.67 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation. They are Dick Weiss and Joe Winski.

Azcentral sports is teaming up with the Cronkite School to offer sports enthusiasts a behind-the-scenes look at Major League Baseball and baseball coverage in the Valley.

Twelve professors from journalism schools across the country will come to ASU in January to learn to teach entrepreneurship at the third annual Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute.

Native American students from nine states will participate in a digital journalism program this week at the Cronkite School.

The National Center on Disability and Journalism at ASU is accepting submissions for a new national journalism awards contest recognizing excellence in reporting on disability issues and people with disabilities.

The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has announced the selection of ASU Professor Andrew Leckey as a Fulbright Scholar to China for the 2014 spring term. He will teach business journalism at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China.

The Maricopa County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has recognized Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, an associate professor at ASU's Cronkite School, for outstanding teaching and exemplary community leadership service.

Registration is now open for two day-long training programs at the Cronkite School for people interested in how to self-publish on e-books and who want to learn to use social media in a strategic way.

An ASU senior from Scottsdale has won the national television championship in the prestigious Hearst Journalism Awards Program.