News from the Cronkite School

Village Voice Media is partnering with the Cronkite School to offer summer fellowships in digital media for college journalism students from underrepresented groups.

News21, a program of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education, is offering a new Web-based resource center to help colleges and universities advance the way they teach journalism.

Ten international journalists and professional communicators will start a new 10-month residential fellowship program today at the Cronkite School.

Carnegie Professor Rick Rodriguez is profiled in the latest edition of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education for his work teaching students how to cover immigration issues.

Caesar Andrews, former executive editor of the Detroit Free Press, will be the new Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics at Arizona State University.

The Arizona Republic has established a memorial scholarship at Arizona State University in honor of the paper’s recently retired managing editor Jeffrey “Doz” Dozbaba.

The Cronkite School building has been awarded an International Architecture Award, Arizona State University announced.

A study conducted by the New Media Innovation Lab at Cronkite for the Newspaper Association of America Foundation examines young people’s smart-phone usage to help newspapers reach the next generation.

Cronkite professor Dawn Gilpin teaches a newly developed class, Media 2.0: Social Media, to students throughout Arizona State University.

Cronkite professor Retha Hill wins a McCormick Foundation New Media Women Entrepreneurs grant to create a mobile application that enables users to learn about black history from their smart phones.

The Cronkite School finished second nationally in the Hearst Journalism Awards for the 2009-2010 school year.

Business journalists express job satisfaction and confidence in journalism's future in a survey commissioned by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.

Thirty-four high school teachers from around the country are participating in an intensive journalism boot camp at the Cronkite School.

A student and a professor at the Cronkite School won a $90,000 Knight News Challenge grant to develop a mobile application that enables citizens to propose and collaborate on ways to better their communities.

Journalism students in the national Carnegie-Knight News21 program, headquartered at the Cronkite School, have been recognized with more than 40 awards for reporting, design, multimedia and photojournalism.

Dan Gillmor, director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Cronkite School, will be joining Salon.com as a regular blogger.

Diane Sawyer, the award-winning anchor of ABC’s flagship newscast “World News with Diane Sawyer,” is this year’s recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

The Cronkite School's New Media Innovation Lab has developed an innovative iPhone application that makes it easier for citizens to connect with their elected officials.

NBC News President Steve Capus urged graduates of the Cronkite School to uphold the time-honored news values for which the school’s namesake is remembered.

Four Cronkite students will travel to New York in June to compete in the national Hearst Journalism Awards championships for radio, television and print.