News from the Cronkite School

The chairman of CBS News, a New York Times bureau chief, the editor of Slate Magazine and an award-winning author and historian are among those headlining a speaker series this fall at ASU.

ASU journalism alumni are invited back to the Cronkite School for the school’s first-ever large-scale alumni celebration Oct. 26.

The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation, the nation’s leader in philanthropic support of professional development and education in business journalism, has awarded two grants totaling $8.21 million to ASU to improve coverage of complex business and economic issues.

Student journalists from the national Carnegie-Knight News21 program will participate in a panel discussion about voting rights Tuesday at the Washington, D.C.-based New America Foundation.

Retha Hill, director of the New Media Innovation Lab at the Cronkite School, conducts a workshop at a conference in Mexico City on international open data movements.

The Downtown Phoenix Partnership and ASU have collaborated to bring a weekly Pop Up Park event to the ASU Downtown Phoenix campus.

Three veteran journalists have been named the Reynolds Visiting Business Journalism Professors at Central Michigan, Elon and Louisiana State universities under a $1.67 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.

ASU is offering the “Discover Phoenix” series on the Downtown Phoenix campus to help students engage with the thriving community that surrounds them.

A new smartphone application will help students on ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus find things to do on campus and in the surrounding area.

Student journalists participating in the national Carnegie-Knight News21 program have produced a major national investigation into voting rights in the U.S.

Journalism professors from around the country will learn about teaching entrepreneurship at the second annual Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute at ASU in January.

Ten international journalists and communicators are starting their yearlong studies at the Cronkite School as part of the prestigious Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program.

CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California is relocating to ASU’s newly opened California offices in affiliation with the Cronkite School.

The Cronkite School has received ASU's inaugural Institutional Inclusion Award in recognition of its efforts to advance diversity and inclusion at the institutional level.

A new national journalism awards program at the Cronkite School will recognize excellence in reporting on disability issues and people with disabilities.

Students at the Cronkite School have founded the first university-based organization affiliated with the Asian American Journalists Association.

The Cronkite School has received two gifts to support the school’s public relations program.

Nineteen students from the Cronkite School are in London to cover the 2012 Olympic Games for Cronkite News Service and other news organizations.

Nine journalism students are participating in the Carnegie-Knight News21 program this summer thanks to support from Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and the Hearst Foundations.

The federal government needs to remove roadblocks to granting nonprofit status to startup news organizations that provide increasingly important accountability journalism in communities around the nation, the former top editor of The Washington Post, now an ASU professor, said in a new report.