News from the Cronkite School

The Commission on the Status of Women at Arizona State University honors Cronkite Dean Christopher Callahan for his work to advance the status of women at ASU.

For a remarkable fourth consecutive year, Cronkite students finish first nationally in the Society of Professional Journalists' intercollegiate news contest.

CBS 5 News anchor Catherine Anaya urges graduating Cronkite students to be fearless and preserve their integrity as they step into an ever-changing field.

The Cronkite School is launching a doctoral program designed for professional journalists and communicators seeking to enter the world of scholarship and research. It will be the only mass communication Ph.D. program in Arizona and one of the few in the western U.S.

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers is moving its national headquarters to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.

Thousands of aspiring young journalists and their teachers gather in downtown Phoenix for the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association convention, the largest high school journalism conference in the country.

Julie Cart, a 1980 journalism graduate of ASU and member of the Cronkite School Alumni Hall of Fame, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a powerful Los Angeles Times series on fighting wildfires.

The New York Times features the Cronkite School and its focus on innovation, entrepreneurship and the digital future in a major story about journalism education.

A Cronkite student project on families divided by the U.S.-Mexico border wins a prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for college print journalism.

“NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams will be this year’s recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

More than 60 journalism students and professors from 12 of the nation’s top journalism programs gather ASU for an intensive digital media symposium, part of the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative.

The Cronkite School is opening the Cronkite New Media Academy this summer in response to a growing demand for multimedia and Web training. Participants will learn how to set up and maintain fully functional, multimedia-rich Web sites.

The Cronkite School is featured in a new video by Apple highlighting the unique relationship between the journalism school and the technology giant.

For the ninth consecutive year, Cronkite students dominate the Society of Professional Journalists' regional student awards competition, capturing 39 awards — almost four times the number won by the second-place school.

Linda Austin, editor and vice president of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader and former business editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, will be the new executive director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at ASU.

A new grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation supports a visiting professorship at the Cronkite School. The Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics honors pioneering newswoman Edith Kinney Gaylord.

Cronkite students finish second in the nation in the broadcast news portion of the prestigious Hearst Journalism Awards program. The school has placed in the top six in the broadcast competition every year for the past six years, including three first-place finishes.

Babak Dehghanpisheh, Newsweek’s Baghdad bureau chief and a prize-winning journalist who has extensively covered the Middle East, is the featured speaker at the third annual Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture at the Cronkite School March 23.

The Cronkite School marks Sunshine Week, a national initiative encouraging dialogue about open government and freedom of information, with a March 18 panel featuring Attorney General Terry Goddard and other leading voices from media, government and public relations.

A report commissioned by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at the Cronkite School finds that more Americans get their economic news from television than daily newspapers, the Internet and radio combined.