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ASU's Cronkite School today launched News Co/Lab, a collaborative lab aimed at helping the public find new ways of understanding and engaging with news and information. News Co/Lab’s initial funder is the Facebook Journalism Project, and McClatchy is its first news media partner.

Cronkite Day

To kick off Homecoming 2017 at ASU, the Cronkite School is inviting alumni, students and faculty to Cronkite Day, an annual large-scale celebration on Friday, Oct. 27.

College journalism professors interested in introducing entrepreneurial concepts and practices into their courses are encouraged to apply for the Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute at ASU's Cronkite School.

A team of ASU students at the Cronkite School won a top multimedia award from the nation’s leading professional organization dedicated to American Indian coverage.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has awarded five public media stations, led by Arizona PBS, a grant to establish a regional news collaboration to enhance and expand coverage of sustainability issues.

Arizona PBS received 12 Emmy nominations from the Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, while ASU students at the Cronkite School dominated the intercollegiate contest.

Annita Helt, ABC15

Anita Helt, a veteran television executive who leads the highly-rated ABC affiliate in Phoenix, is the new president of the Cronkite Endowment Board of Trustees at ASU's Cronkite School.

Floyd Abrams

Floyd Abrams, the prominent First Amendment attorney who represented The New York Times in the landmark Pentagon Papers Supreme Court case, is coming to ASU to discuss freedom of speech on campus.

Cronkite Humphrey Fellows

A veteran editor who led Uruguay’s largest newspaper, a South African strategic communications executive dedicated to eradicating the legacy of apartheid and a Cambodian reporter who was shot at while covering a story are among the 12 global journalists and communicators studying at ASU.

The editor-in-chief of National Geographic Magazine, a veteran White House correspondent, a top ESPN “SportsCenter” anchor and the head of news at Snapchat are among the leading communications professionals headlining a speaker series this fall at ASU's Cronkite School.

News21 Troubled Water

The Carnegie-Knight News21 program, a national multi-university reporting initiative headquartered at ASU's Cronkite School, released a major multimedia investigation into water pollution and its impact on health in the U.S.

On the 10th anniversary of a helicopter crash that took the lives of four Phoenix news professionals, the parents of one of the victims announced the establishment of a photojournalism endowment at ASU to honor their late son.

Thirty-one high school students from 15 states will report on professional sports teams and get training in sports journalism as part of the Cronkite Sports Broadcast Boot Camp at ASU.

Fernanda Santos

Fernanda Santos, an award-winning author and southwest correspondent for The New York Times, is joining the Cronkite School as a Southwest Borderlands Initiative Professor.

ASU's Cronkite School has received a grant to fund a new virtual-reality project through a news initiative from Google News Lab, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Online News Association.

The Cronkite School is a “model for retention, transformative education and inclusion,” a national council said in reaccrediting the ASU program for another six years.

Cronkite Innovation Camp

Twenty-two high school students from across Arizona are participating in an intensive, two-week media innovation training camp at ASU's Cronkite School.

Cohen Sarah

Sarah Cohen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning data editor of The New York Times and former Duke University professor, is joining the Cronkite School as the Knight Chair in Data Journalism, ASU announced Thursday.

Craig Allen, an associate professor at the Cronkite School, has been appointed as the new associate dean of Barrett, the Honors College for ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus.

For the fifth straight year, a journalism student at ASU has been named the top collegiate photojournalist in the state by the Arizona Press Club.