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Jason Manning, political editor of washingtonpost.com, one of the nation's leaders in digital media, is moving west to become director of Student Media at Arizona State University.

For the third consecutive year, Cronkite students have finished first in the Society of Professional Journalists' highly competitive intercollegiate news contest.

N. Christian Anderson III, who led the Orange County Register to two Pulitzer Prizes as editor and later became the newspaper's award-winning publisher, will join ASU this fall as the Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics.

Former St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editor Ellen Soeteber, the school's Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics, delivered the keynote convocation address to the 187 newest Cronkite graduates.

ABC News announced the launch of ABC News on Campus, a partnership with the Cronkite School and four other top journalism schools across the country to educate and mentor talented college students.

Newly promoted Associate Professor Carol Schwalbe is the recipient of this year's ASU Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Classroom Performance.

Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil, the PBS news anchor tandem who epitomize the best of thought-provoking and in-depth broadcast journalism, will be this year's recipients of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

For the eighth consecutive year, the Cronkite School dominated the Society of Professional Journalists' regional student competition, winning a remarkable 51 awards – nearly half of all the awards given in the Region 11 SPJ Mark of Excellence competition.

Five Cronkite School students were part of a team from The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com that won first place in this year's Best of Gannett national award for breaking news coverage. The team was recognized for coverage of the July 27 crash of two TV news helicopters that killed four.

Norm Ginsburg, a longtime CBS executive who taught part time at the Cronkite School for more than 20 years, died Thursday after a short illness. He was 83.

Deanna Dent, a senior in the Cronkite School, is one of nine journalism students from across the country to win the 2008 Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition. She will travel to Japan and South Korea for a 13-day journalism study tour in June, sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation.

Win Holden, publisher of Arizona Highways magazine, has been named president of the Cronkite Endowment Board for 2008, replacing Ron Bergamo, general manager of AZ-TV, who was killed in car accident in January.

A Cronkite graduate has won an award for best student documentary from the Broadcast Education Association. Ray Gonzales' documentary tells the story of one Japanese-American whose family was moved to an internment camp near Phoenix during World War II.

The Cronkite School won more awards than any other school in the nation in the latest Broadcast Education Association annual news reporting and interactive media contests, including two of the BEA's top honors.

Eight university students from around the country who have shown promise in the field of business journalism have been awarded $4,000 scholarships from the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.

The Cronkite School is hosting 90 high school students from across the state for a daylong workshop on journalism sponsored by the Arizona Latino Media Association. This year's workshop will focus on multimedia skills.

Cronkite School Professor Donald Godfrey is the recipient of the Broadcast Education Association's 2008 Distinguished Education Service Award, the group's highest honor for an individual who has contributed to electronic media education.

Rick Rodriguez, former executive editor of the Sacramento Bee and the first Latino president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, is joining the faculty of the Cronkite School as the school's Southwest Borderlands Initiative Professor.

Dave Cornelius, a longtime Valley educator who built the state's premier high school broadcast education program, has joined the Cronkite School as director of the Stardust High School Journalism program. Cornelius will oversee a new initiative to create multimedia newsrooms at underserved Arizona high schools.

Four leading women journalists will discuss the gains women have made in journalism and the challenges they still face at the second annual Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture, held in memory of Paul J. Schatt, longtime editor at The Arizona Republic and instructor at the Cronkite School.

Aaron Brown, former CNN anchor and the Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism at ASU, is giving this year's Goldwater Lecture, offering his insights on press coverage and the 2008 presidential campaign