News from the Cronkite School

Cronkite student Jack Highberger is one of nine journalism students from across the country to win the 2012 Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition.

Top journalism students from 12 universities around the country will conduct a national investigative reporting project on voting rights as part of the Carnegie-Knight News21 in-depth journalism program.

Steven Ginsberg, the national political editor of The Washington Post, will be the featured speaker at the sixth annual Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture.

For the second time in three years, ASU has won first place in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program’s prestigious intercollegiate broadcast competition.

Cronkite students won more awards at the Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts competition than any other school in the country for the third consecutive year.

Steve Doig, Knight Chair in Journalism at the Cronkite School, has won a prestigious George Polk Award for his work with California Watch, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization.

Cronkite students are producing daily multimedia news coverage of Major League Baseball spring training for four major news organizations.

Recent Cronkite School graduate Elvina Nawaguna-Clemente has received the award for the nation’s top student-publication business story from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

Journalists, philanthropists and community leaders will gather at ASU this week to discuss the role of philanthropy in the future of local accountability journalism.

A national public radio host, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, two Poynter Institute faculty members, a group of baseball writers and the former editor of The (Portland) Oregonian are among those headlining a speaker series this spring at the Cronkite School.

Comedy headliner Steve Rannazzisi of FX’s hit show “The League” will kick off a spring semester event series for ASU students at the Downtown Phoenix campus.

A new partnership between American Public Media and ASU will help foster collaborative reporting and innovative storytelling in public affairs journalism.

The Cronkite School will host the inaugural Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute this week, welcoming 15 college journalism professors to a five-day seminar on entrepreneurial journalism.

The Poynter Institute and the Cronkite School have formed an alliance to improve the teaching and training of journalists in the digital media age.

The Cronkite School will host 10 of the nation’s top broadcast journalism students from underrepresented groups as part of the school’s Meredith Fellowship Program.

Sharon Bernstein, an award-winning editor and reporter with more than 20 years of experience at the Los Angeles Times, has been named the Donald W. Reynolds Visiting Professor in Business Journalism for the spring 2012 semester at the Cronkite School.

The president and CEO of American Public Media encouraged the newest Cronkite School graduates to make a conscious effort to have an impact on society as they embark on their journalism careers.

A Cronkite student has won first place in the feature writing competition of the national Hearst Journalism Awards Program.

Arizona State University on Tuesday unveiled a 77-kilowatt solar project on the Cronkite School's roof that will help provide renewable energy to ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus.

A major national investigation into food safety in America is now available in e-book form.