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Thirty-four high school students, many from underrepresented communities, are learning journalism this summer through two residential programs at Cronkite.

Thirty-four high school journalism teachers from around the country will enhance their skills at ASU this month in a training program funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and operated by the American Society of News Editors.

ASU is launching a program designed to bring together the worlds of journalism and medical science.

Cronkite students earned recognition this spring for accomplishments in reporting, producing, photography, entrepreneurship and digital innovation.

Associate Professor Fran Matera, director of the Public Relations Lab at Cronkite, was recognized this spring as one of ASU's outstanding faculty members.

Arizona State University students won 12 awards in the Society of Professional Journalists' prestigious national Mark of Excellence competition, more than double the number of any other university in the country.

Leonard Downie Jr., vice president at large of The Washington Post and Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Cronkite School, makes the case in a Post opinion piece that the Obama administration is undermining investigative journalism in the U.S.

Bob Schieffer, the award-winning CBS News correspondent and longtime anchor of "Face the Nation," will be the 2013 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, ASU announced.

The Society of Professional Journalists presented a special First Amendment Award to the Cronkite School for a national multimedia investigative reporting project on voter rights and voting fraud.

National media personality and noted author Ian Punnett will join the Cronkite School at Arizona State University this fall as a doctoral student.

The national director of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program urged graduates of the Cronkite School to "pay it forward," giving back to their professions and others as they embark on their careers.

Brittany Morris, a junior in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been awarded a research scholarship from the Center for Religion and Conflict to travel to Kuwait to study the participation of Muslim women in civil society.

Journalism programs at the University of Oklahoma and California State University, Fullerton will receive visiting business journalism professors next spring under an ASU program funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.

For his story of a North Korean man with a rough past, ASU alumnus Adam Johnson has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. The award for his novel, "The Orphan Master's Son," was announced April 15.

Arizona State University has appointed documentary filmmaker Peter Byck to jointly serve as professor of practice for the Global Institute of Sustainability's School of Sustainability and for the Cronkite School.

For the 13th consecutive year, students of the Cronkite School took first in the regional Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence student awards competition.

Top journalism students from 12 universities around the country will conduct a national investigative reporting project on post-9/11 veterans as part of the Carnegie-Knight News21 in-depth journalism program.

Two dozen journalists and educators from 16 countries come together for a discussion about globalization and international cooperation with students and faculty at Yavapai College in central Arizona.

Gwen Ifill, one of the nation's most recognizable and seasoned television journalists, said that diversity is not only important in newsrooms it is what makes society strong.

Students in a business journalism reporting course at the Cronkite School spent their spring break in Los Angeles tracking the money side of entertainment.

A new version of Urban Devil, a mobile app that lists events happening on and near ASU's Downtown Phoenix Campus, is now available in app stores and online.