ASU Launches Innovation Lab for New Media
A national leader in online news is leading a new lab that will help create multimedia products for Gannett and other news companies.
Reynolds Center Launches New Programs
The Reynolds Center launches new initiatives to improve business journalism training at the university level.
Cronkite Alum Named Diamondbacks President
Derrick Hall, a Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame member, is the new president of the Arizona Diamondbacks
Cronkite Students, Professor Win National Awards
Cronkite students won six national magazine awards while one of their teachers was named the nation’s top “promising professor” here at the annual meeting of journalism educators.
Meredith Corp. Starts Fellowship Program
Meredith Corp., CBS 5 and the Cronkite School are launching a nationwide fellowship program for minority broadcast journalism students.
Challenge from Fulton Nets $100,000 for Cronkite
The Cronkite School raised more than $100,000 from a fundraising challenge from philanthropists Ira and Mary Lou Fulton.
AP Exec to Lead Student-run News Service
Steve Elliott, former Phoenix bureau chief for The Associated Press, will be the founding director of the Cronkite News Service print program
Study Finds Little Coverage of Latinos in U.S. News Magazines
A new national study conducted by the Cronkite School for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists finds coverage of Latinos is sorely lacking in U.S. news magazines.
Top Phoenix Journalists Join Cronkite to Expand TV Programs
Two leading Phoenix journalists are joining the faculty to expand the Cronkite School’s award-winning TV newscast and create a new program to provide news packages to stations around the state.
Cronkite Students Dominate 'Best of the West,' Other Competitions
Cronkite newspaper students dominate the “Best of the West” journalism competition while students specializing in online, public relations and magazines all are winning national and regional accolades.
Reynolds Gives ASU $3.5M for Business Journalism Center
The Cronkite School is the new home of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, thanks to a $3.5 million grant that is the largest gift in school history.
Arizona Republic Publishes Cronkite Students’ Don Bolles Project
The Arizona Republic and its Web site, azcentral.com, published a nine-story package created by a Cronkite School class that explores the slaying of investigative reporter Don Bolles on the 30th anniversary of his murder.
Cronkite Students Top Nation in National SPJ Competition
Students from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication won more national awards in this year’s Society of Professional Journalist’s intercollegiate journalism competition than any other school in the nation.
Ex-CNN Anchor Aaron Brown to Be Rhodes Chair at Arizona State
Aaron Brown, the former lead anchor for CNN, will join the Cronkite School faculty for Spring ’07 as the Barrett Honors College’s John J. Rhodes Chair.
News Executive Tells Graduates about “New World Order”
Top newspaper executive Sue Clark-Johnson told graduating Cronkite School students that the media world is in the midst of a “wild-fire transition” that presents both great challenges and unparalleled opportunities.
Tom Brokaw Next Cronkite Award of Excellence Recipient
Tom Brokaw, who anchored NBC’s nightly newscast for more than 20 years, will be this year’s recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Associate Dean Barrett Named Louise Solheim Professor
Cronkite School Associate Dean Marianne Barrett is named the Solheim Professor, thanks to a generous gift from philanthropist Louise Solheim.
Top TV Executives Look at Future of Television at Cronkite Forum
The general managers of eight major television stations in Phoenix met at a Cronkite School forum to discuss the future of local television in the wake of the digital technological revolution. Read Laura Newpoff’s story from the Business Journal of Phoenix.
Cronkite Student Named Top Collegiate TV Reporter
A student from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been named the top collegiate television reporter in the United States.
Cronkite Student Wins First NLGJA Leroy Aarons National Scholarship
Dennis Shane Mitchell, a Cronkite School sophomore who was Arizona’s high school journalist of the year two years ago, was named the inaugural recipient of the Leroy F. Aarons Scholarship from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalist Association.