Sydney Halliwell, graduate student in digital audience strategy at Cronkite School

Your future starts now

The possibilities for a career in storytelling are endless. Who will you become at the Cronkite School?

Launch your career in media

The Cronkite School is one of the nation’s top journalism and mass communication schools. With professional programs in digital media, broadcast news, sports reporting, media innovation, public relations, digital marketing, Spanish-language news and more, Cronkite offers hands-on learning experiences and access to competitive internships and opportunities from day one.

Cronkite students Final Four

Phoenix Cronkite students take advantage of multiple opportunities across the Valley during NCAA Men’s Final Four

Cronkite students covered the games, documented events on social media and engaged with fans during the Final Four.

Cronkite News spring training

Cronkite students publish work for several media outlets during spring training

The Cronkite News Phoenix Sports Bureau partnered with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Bay Area News Group, The Kansas City Star and The Denver Post to provide team coverage for those publications.

Distinguished filmmaker, scholar to join Cronkite School as Southwest Borderlands Initiative Professor of Media and Indigenous Communities

Renowned documentary filmmaker Marcos Colón will join the Cronkite School as the school’s Southwest Borderlands Initiative Professor of Media and Indigenous Communities

Areas of study

Journalism that drives change

Spanning three major cities, our award-winning newsrooms produce TV news that reaches more than 1 million Arizonans each day, and digital news published on trusted media sites nationwide.

Sports beyond the games

Cronkite students cover Phoenix’s five major professional athletic teams, collegiate sports, the Cactus League, esports, and the issues that impact athletes, teams and fans.

Two students work together to set up a camera.

Smart, strategic communication

In immersive programs specializing in public relations, digital marketing and media innovation, Cronkite students create real campaigns for real clients, driving real impact.

I’m super thankful for all the experiences I made at Cronkite that refined me as a journalist, but most proud of all the lifelong friends I met who I can lean on in upcoming years in the industry.

Gabe Swartz (’22) Digital News Producer/Assignment Editor, KCTV5 News

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Thursday, April 18, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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News-Press & Gazette Recruiting Visit: One-on-One Interviews Sign-up

Monday, April 22, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
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Exploring U.S.-Mexico Cultural Diplomacy

Monday, April 22, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
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