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Ben Silver, an award-winning correspondent for CBS News who later taught broadcast journalism at ASU for nearly 20 years, died Wednesday from complications of Parkinson's disease at his home in St. Louis Park, Minn. He was 85.

Emmy Award-winning sportscaster Bob Costas will be the 2012 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, ASU announced today.

Cronkite students have won seven awards in the Society of Professional Journalists' prestigious national Mark of Excellence competition, including best student newscast and best online in-depth report.

The international program headquarters at the Cronkite School was named today in honor of alumna Adelaida Severson and her husband, Barry.

CBS News President David Rhodes will deliver the keynote graduation address next month at the Cronkite School.

For the 12th consecutive year, Cronkite students took first place in the regional Society of Professional Journalists' Mark of Excellence competition.

The Society of Professional Journalists is honoring two watchdog projects by student journalists at the Cronkite School with First Amendment Awards.

The national political editor of The Washington Post discussed how the new media landscape is changing the coverage of the 2012 presidential election Thursday night at Arizona State University.

Cronkite student Jack Highberger is one of nine journalism students from across the country to win the 2012 Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition.

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

Steven Ginsberg, the national political editor of The Washington Post, will be the featured speaker at the sixth annual Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture.

For the second time in three years, ASU has won first place in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program's prestigious intercollegiate broadcast competition.

Cronkite students won more awards at the Broadcast Education Association's Festival of Media Arts competition than any other school in the country for the third consecutive year.

Steve Doig, Knight Chair in Journalism at the Cronkite School, has won a prestigious George Polk Award for his work with California Watch, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization.

Cronkite students are producing daily multimedia news coverage of Major League Baseball spring training for four major news organizations.

Recent Cronkite School graduate Elvina Nawaguna-Clemente has received the award for the nation's top student-publication business story from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

Journalists, philanthropists and community leaders will gather at ASU this week to discuss the role of philanthropy in the future of local accountability journalism.

A national public radio host, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, two Poynter Institute faculty members, a group of baseball writers and the former editor of The (Portland) Oregonian are among those headlining a speaker series this spring at the Cronkite School.

Comedy headliner Steve Rannazzisi of FX's hit show "The League" will kick off a spring semester event series for ASU students at the Downtown Phoenix campus.

A new partnership between American Public Media and ASU will help foster collaborative reporting and innovative storytelling in public affairs journalism.

The Cronkite School will host the inaugural Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute this week, welcoming 15 college journalism professors to a five-day seminar on entrepreneurial journalism.