News from the Cronkite School

Thirty fellows -- 15 journalists and 15 professors -- have been selected by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism to attend four days of intensive study in business journalism Jan. 4-7 at the Cronkite School.

Diane Sawyer met with nearly 200 Arizona State University students, accepted the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism and anchored ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer” twice from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication during an extraordinary two-day visit.

Diane Sawyer is anchoring the ABC News national newscast “World News with Diane Sawyer” two days from the rooftop of the Cronkite School.

Cronkite students will produce three hours of live election coverage Tuesday night on Arizona PBS and provide continuous online coverage of local and state election results on cronkitenewsonline.com.

ABC News, Facebook and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University will host an election night town hall that will be streamed live on the network and on Facebook.

Don Dotts, an alumnus of the Cronkite School, received Arizona State University’s Alumni Service Award at halftime of the ASU Homecoming football game at Sun Devil Stadium.

Brian Storm, a leading figure in digital storytelling and founder of the multimedia production studio MediaStorm, will be a visiting professor at the Cronkite School next semester.

The Cronkite School is hosting a group of international journalists as part of the U.S. State Department’s prestigious Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists.

A new partnership with NBC News will provide students in the Cronkite School with professional internship opportunities at top network properties in New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Atlanta and Burbank, Calif.

Reuters received the gold award and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel received the silver award in the 2010 Barlett & Steele Awards.

A major investigation into transportation safety in America, conducted by journalism students from 11 universities participating in the Carnegie-Knight Journalism Initiative in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, will be published this week by msnbc.com and The Washington Post.

The New Media Innovation Lab at Arizona State University has built a Web-based campaign finance database that will be integrated into about 100 U.S. news sites owned by Gannett Co.

The Cronkite School dedicated a memorial photo wall today in memory of 1980 Arizona State University graduate and longtime photojournalist Greg Crowder, who died in 2005 after a career at the Riverside Press-Enterprise in California.

Arizona State University today launches Cronkite News, a news website providing Arizonans original multimedia stories each day about critical public policy issues facing the state.

Two new clubs for journalism students at the Cronkite School foster diversity within the Arizona State University community and beyond.

Pam Johnson, who led the award-winning School of Journalism & Broadcasting at Western Kentucky University for the past seven years, will spend her fall sabbatical at the Cronkite School to study digital media.

Prominent media professionals will speak to students Monday evenings this fall at the Cronkite School.

A new online store enables students, alumni, family and fans of the Cronkite School to wear their pride in the school on their sleeve—literally.

The Cronkite School is partnering with The Arizona Republic and 12 News to provide Arizonans a new public service that evaluates the accuracy of claims made by politicians running for office this fall.

Cronkite School Dean Christopher Callahan, accepting the Scripps Howard Journalism Administrator of the Year Award, said the recognition is “much more of a team award than an individual honor.”