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A Cronkite student-produced documentary on the scourge of heroin that was broadcasted on 93 radio stations statewide has won a top professional honor from one of the nation’s oldest journalism organizations.

Bruce Merrill, a nationally known pollster and researcher who taught at ASU for four decades, died Saturday from complications due to cancer. He was 78.

“Hooked: Tracking Heroin’s Hold on Arizona,” a statewide TV special produced by ASU students at the Cronkite School in association with the Arizona Broadcasters Association, will receive a top honor from the nation’s leading broadcaster organization.

Milton Coleman, a former senior editor at The Washington Post, is joining the Cronkite School as the Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics at ASU.

For the fourth consecutive year, an ASU student at the Cronkite School has won the highest collegiate honor in the state’s top photojournalism contest.

Scott Pelley

Scott Pelley, anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News,” will be the 2016 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Aaron Lavinsky

Aaron Lavinsky, a 2014 graduate of ASU's Cronkite School, won a prestigious honor from one of the nation’s top visual journalism organizations.

Ashleigh Gardner, Wattpad

The head of content at Wattpad, an innovative storytelling app creating new paths at the intersection of literature and technology, is the featured speaker of the annual Public Relations Lab Mentorship Lecture at ASU's Cronkite School.

The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation has awarded ASU's Cronkite School an $800,000 grant for students to learn and experience news innovation and to spread new ideas across journalism.

Eric Newton

Cronkite Innovation Chief Eric Newton is receiving one of the nation’s highest press freedom honors for his work at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Jacob McAuliffe

An ASU student at the Cronkite School placed first among 50 students from 30 different universities in the radio news competition at the annual Hearst Journalism Awards.

ASU's Cronkite School successfully completed a $50,000 crowdfunding initiative to help Cronkite News students expand coverage of border and immigration issues during this election year.

ASU students at the Cronkite School collected more awards in news categories in the Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts competition than any other school in the country.

Venita Hawthorne James

Venita Hawthorne James, a veteran Arizona Republic journalist, is a new director in the Phoenix bureau at Cronkite News, a multiplatform daily news enterprise at Arizona PBS operated by ASU's Cronkite School.

John McCain

U.S. Sen. John McCain will share his thoughts on politics, security and the media as part of an interview series at ASU's Cronkite School and Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Eric Newton, innovation chief at ASU's Cronkite School, explores journalism innovation in a three-part series of articles for MediaShift. 

International journalists from nine countries will explore important issues impacting journalism at the annual “Cronkite Global Conversations” speaker series at ASU's Cronkite School.

Thomas E. Ricks

Thomas E. Ricks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, best-selling author and national security expert, is the featured speaker of the 10th annual Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture at ASU's Cronkite School.

“Hooked: Tracking Heroin’s Hold on Arizona,” a duPont Award-winning investigative report by students at ASU's Cronkite School, is making its national television debut this week.

Cronkite News Borderlands

The Cronkite School and Arizona PBS kick off a crowdfunding campaign to help Cronkite News students increase coverage of border and immigration issues during this election year.