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Weather Central Inc., a leader in state-of-the-art weather, news, traffic and sports digital broadcast technologies, announces an unprecedented partnership with the Cronkite School. Weather Central will provide the school with cutting-edge satellite, graphics and mapping technologies that will enable students to produce professional weather reports.

Longtime media executive Ron Bergamo, chairman of the Cronkite School Endowment Board of Trustees and general manager of AZ-TV in Phoenix, was killed in a car accident Sunday.

The Cronkite School has announced the creation of the Cronkite Institute for High School Journalism, a consortium of programs reaching out to high school journalism students and their teachers. The institute includes long-standing Cronkite programs as well as several new ones.

A recent Cronkite graduate was honored for best student production in the Emmy Awards given by the Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Rick Rodriguez, former executive editor of The Sacramento Bee and one of the nation's most prominent Latino journalists, told Cronkite School graduates that massive changes in the journalism profession mean opportunity for them. Rodriguez delivered the keynote speech at the Cronkite School's fall convocation ceremony.

Cronkite students are now appearing weekly on a network television affiliate in one of the nation's largest media markets.

Longtime Chicago television journalist Bob Petty is the newest member of the Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame.

Business stories on environmental sustainability published in the nation's 10 largest newspapers have increased dramatically, a new Reynolds study shows.

With nearly 1,100 in attendance, Walter Cronkite presented the annual award in his name to television journalist Jane Pauley.

Twelve journalists and 12 journalism educators are awarded Reynolds Center fellowships to focus on business journalism, to be held concurrently in January at the Cronkite School.

Dan Gillmor, an internationally recognized author and leader in new media and citizen-based journalism, will be the founding director of the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Cronkite School.

Rick Rodriguez, the former executive editor of The Sacramento Bee and one of the nation's most prominent Latino journalists, will deliver the keynote address at the fall 2007 convocation for graduates of the Cronkite School.

Dean Christopher Callahan calls the subpoenas of New Times records a "grotesque and unprecedented" abuse of government powers.

Ellen Soeteber, an award-winning journalist and former top editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will join Arizona State University as the Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics at the Cronkite School.

Cronkite student Ryan Kost has been named one of the top 10 journalism students in the country by the Scripps Howard Foundation. He was awarded a $10,000 scholarship through the foundation's Top Ten Scholarship Program.

Cronkite students won more awards than students from any other university in the country in the 2007 Student Magazine Contest, sponsored by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

For the fourth year in a row, public relations students in the Cronkite School placed first in the NASA Means Business Competition. The year-long competition promotes science, technology, engineering and math education to middle and high school students.

The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com are creating an endowed scholarship at the Cronkite School in the name of Republic film critic Bill Muller, who died Sept. 6. The scholarship will be awarded annually to a deserving journalism student.

The Stardust Foundation is making a $510,000 grant to the Cronkite School to fund a groundbreaking initiative to develop high school journalism programs in Arizona. The Scottsdale-based foundation will invest in multimedia classrooms at 10 selected high schools.

Tim J. McGuire, the Frank Russell Chair for the Business of Journalism in the Cronkite School, is launching a blog on the business of journalism and media ethics. He will write two to three times a week on trends in the rapidly changing news industry.

Tim McGuire, the Frank Russell Chair in the Business of Journalism at the Cronkite School, will deliver the keynote address for the Arizona Newspapers Association annual meeting and fall convention. Other Cronkite faculty will lead sessions on topics ranging from computer-assisted reporting to managing a newsroom.