News from the Cronkite School

The advising team at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is ready to help guide both new and returning students through their multi-year experience.

The Cronkite School’s Southwest Health Reporting Initiative has launched a new monthly health newsletter that aims to start a conversation about health disparities in underserved communities.

Arizona PBS will honor the legacy of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor with the national premiere of “Sandra Day O’Connor: The First.”

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University is now accepting entries for the 2020-2021 Shaufler Prize in Journalism.

ASU students received more first-place prizes than any other student publication in the country. 

Arizona PBS and the Cronkite School swept up a total of 36 Emmy and Student Production Award nominations.

Savannah Rose Dagupion was honored as Hawaii’s 2021 Student Journalist of the Year after coaxing some of her fellow classmates to help her revive the journalism program at Kamehameha Schools, Maui.

The Harkavy Scholarship for Investigative Reporting was established at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2020 to honor the memory of Valley reporter Ward Harkavy.

The National Center on Disability and Journalism has released an updated version of its disability language style guide.

Jeffrey Timmermans has been named Reynolds Chair in Business Journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

A new project from the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism investigates how child sexual abuse cases in Indian Country may be falling through the cracks.

The Poynter Institute’s PolitiFact will move its offices to Arizona State University’s campus in the heart of Washington, D.C.

Several award-winning journalists from around the world are part of this year’s cohort of Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows.

The first of seven planned release phases begins Sept. 1, 2021.

Cronkite News recently launched an auditory and phonetic visual pronunciation feature on its website.

The PR Lab won top honors in the international dotCOMM awards, which honor excellence in web creativity and digital communication.

Bryan Pietsch, a 2019 Cronkite School graduate, has returned to his birth country, South Korea, as a reporter for The Washington Post.

Arizona PBS general manager Adrienne Fairwell was among the first group of public media leaders to participate in a program exploring opportunities and challenges related to diversity, equity and inclusion.

The National Center on Disability and Journalism at Arizona State University is partnering with the Zero Project, a non-profit disability rights organization based in Vienna, Austria, for a virtual discussion about how disability - and people with disabilities - are covered in the media, both in the U.S. and other countries.

Cronkite students captured 29 awards -- including four professional awards and all eight first- place awards in the student categories -- in the 2020 Arizona Press Club contest.