News from the Cronkite School

ASU students produce multimedia reports on “Latino America” that demonstrate how journalism can be done in innovative and in-depth ways on the Web. The projects look at the social, economic, cultural and political impact of the surging Latino population in the United States.

Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, a National Public Radio correspondent, three TV news anchors, the former editor of The Washington Post and Sheriff Joe Arpaio will headline a Monday night speakers series this fall at the Cronkite School.

The Cronkite School’s second New Media Academy is offering 10-day, five-day and one-day registrations for an innovative training program in digital media this fall.

The Cronkite School is welcoming the strongest freshman class in the school’s history. This year’s incoming class of 264 is 45 percent larger than last year’s cohort.

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is planning a daylong tribute next month to honor the late CBS News anchor.

A group of supporters of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University is creating a fund to honor the school’s namesake and educate future generations about the importance of the journalistic values his work embodied.

Robin J. Phillips, a journalist with a rich background in business news and online journalism, joins the Cronkite School’s Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism as Web managing editor.

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at ASU launches two new blogs to help business journalists stay ahead of the news and polish their skills. The blogs are available at www.businessjournalism.org.

The Cronkite School is hosting its second Cronkite New Media Academy this fall, offering professional training for those who want to learn new media skills.

Flags at ASU are lowered in tribute to the late Walter Cronkite, and the Cronkite School offers special tributes to the school's namesake.

Cronkite students win recognition for work that includes a Webby honor, a multimedia reporting project that is being showcased by the Online News Association and a presentation that helped win Phoenix an All-American City designation.

For the third year in a row, Cronkite students top a national student magazine contest. Students won a total of seven awards in the 2009 contest sponsored by the Magazine Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Aaron Brown, the Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism at ASU and former CNN anchor, hosts the PBS international affairs weekly magazine "Wide Angle" this summer.

Cronkite students sweep a national intercollegiate journalism competition that honors the best of global news coverage. The winners were all students of Associate Professor Carol Schwalbe, who specializes in multimedia journalism and magazine writing.

An innovative news project, developed by two students at Cronkite’s Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, wins a Knight News Challenge grant.

Thirty-five high school teachers from 14 states are participating in an intensive journalism boot camp at the Cronkite School this month. The program is sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and administered by the American Society of News Editors.

Cronkite sophomore Colton Shone is this year’s national champion in the Hearst Journalism Awards program for his work in radio reporting.

Young adults rely heavily on the Internet for economic news, according to a new nationwide study by the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism.

The Cronkite School is first in the nation in the Hearst Journalism Awards, considered the Pulitzers of college journalism. Cronkite has won the competition twice in the past three years and finished first or second in four of the past five years.

A television special goes behind the scenes of a Cronkite School student reporting project in South Africa. The news magazine airs on Eight/KAET’s “Eight World” program and is featured on the KAET Web site.