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News from the Cronkite School

Catch up on what’s (and who’s!) new at the Cronkite School.

In a highly unusual collaboration, every broadcast TV station and most radio outlets across Arizona will air simultaneously a 30-minute commercial-free investigative report produced by ASU student journalists on the growing perils of heroin and opioid use.

Dan Barry, New York Times

A New York Times story about a group of men with intellectual disabilities who worked in servitude for decades has won top honors in the 2014 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability.

Robin Roberts Cronkite Award

Award-winning journalist Robin Roberts of ABC’s “Good Morning America” extolled the importance of living life with optimism and faith as she accepted the 2014 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Monday from ASU.

ProPublica, Reuters and The Huffington Post won gold, silver and bronze awards, respectively, in the eighth annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism.

Cronkite Day

The Cronkite School is hosting Cronkite Day, an annual large-scale alumni celebration, on Friday, Oct. 31, as part of ASU’s Homecoming 2014.

A national investigation by Carnegie-Knight News21 into the fate of veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan has received the Online News Association’s top award for student reporting in 2014.

ASU students at the Cronkite School amassed 22 Student Production Award nominations in the 2014 Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards — seven more than the rest of the field combined.

Seventeen new scholarships have been created for ASU students under a unique incentive matching program for faculty, staff and administrators.

ASU's Cronkite School is opening the doors of its New Media Innovation Lab to the public, offering expert advice and support on entrepreneurial and technological endeavors.

ASU's Cronkite School is now accepting applications for the Knight-Cronkite Alumni Innovation Grant, which awards up to $15,000 to Cronkite graduates who are professional journalists looking to pioneer cutting-edge technologies and practices in their newsrooms.

Eric Deggans

Eric Deggans, one of the nation’s top television critics, will give a free public lecture at ASU's Cronkite School this fall on race in the modern media through the Provost’s Office of Academic Excellence and Inclusion.

Peter Bergen

Peter Bergen, an award-winning journalist, author, film producer and CNN’s national security analyst, will screen and discuss his new National Geographic Channel documentary “American War Generals” at the Cronkite School at ASU.

Zócalo Chloe Nordquist and Kelsey Hess

Two ASU students at the Cronkite School participated in a new fellowship, shining a light on important global sustainability issues for Zócalo Public Square, a cutting-edge media outlet in California.

Cronkite Must See Mondays Speakers

The senior media correspondent for CNN, an award-winning White House correspondent, NPR's media critic and a documentary photographer from National Geographic will headline a speaker series this fall at ASU’s Cronkite School.

The Poynter Institute and the Cronkite School at ASU will launch an innovative online certificate program for adjunct faculty and others who teach journalism and mass communications classes at universities and colleges around the country.

The Carnegie-Knight News21 program, a national multi-university reporting initiative headquartered at the Cronkite School at ASU, today released a major investigation into the polarizing issues of gun rights and regulation in America.

Humphrey Fellows

A newspaper reporter from Uganda, a film producer from Armenia and a communications director from Afghanistan are among the 10 global journalists and communicators selected to the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program at the Cronkite School at ASU.

Doug Anderson

Doug Anderson, who led the nation’s largest accredited communications program for the past 15 years as dean of Penn State’s College of Communications, is returning to ASU, where he built the foundation for the Cronkite School.

ASU students at the Cronkite School earned awards and recognition in reporting, photography and public relations, among other areas, for work done during the 2013-2014 academic year.

Starting this fall, ASU students at the Cronkite School will report live from across the state using cutting-edge technology, thanks to a new grant from Women & Philanthropy, a program of the ASU Foundation for A New American University.