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ASU’s Cronkite School is taking applications for the Knight-Cronkite Alumni Innovation Grant, which awards up to $15,000 to Cronkite graduates who are professional journalists looking to pioneer cutting-edge technologies and practices in their newsrooms.

The president of Al Jazeera America, a top anchor at CNN en Español and the CEO of an international public relations agency are among the journalists and communicators taking part in a lecture series at the Cronkite School.

Next week, every broadcast TV station and most radio outlets in Arizona that are used to competing will unite and simultaneously air a 30-minute, commercial-free documentary produced by ASU journalism students.

Ten of the nation’s top broadcast journalism students from underrepresented groups are participating in the Meredith-Cronkite Fellowship Program at CBS 5, KPHO-TV, and ASU’s Cronkite School this week.

Fifteen professors from across the country will study entrepreneurial journalism at the fifth annual Scripps Howard Journalism Entrepreneurship Institute at the Cronkite School.

Journalists and professors from around the country will participate in a rigorous business journalism institute at the Cronkite School next month.

Peter Bhatia, Cronkite School

Peter Bhatia, the former award-winning editor of The Oregonian newspaper and the Cronkite’s Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics, urged the newest graduates of the Cronkite School to invent the future of journalism.

The Cronkite School at ASU will offer two new degrees in the fast-growing field of sports journalism beginning in fall 2015.

Brett Kurland, Cronkite School

Brett Kurland, an Emmy-winning sports producer and multimedia entrepreneur, is the director of a new Phoenix sports reporting bureau at ASU’s Cronkite School.

Mike Reilley

The Cronkite School has selected digital media innovator Mike Reilley to direct a new professional program in which ASU students will produce dynamic multimedia content.

Jean McGuire

ASU professor Tim McGuire has established a new endowed scholarship at the Cronkite School to honor his late wife, Jean McGuire.

For the third consecutive year, a major national investigation by Carnegie-Knight News21 at ASU has received a prestigious EPPY Award from Editor & Publisher magazine.

Edward J. Sylvester

Edward J. Sylvester, an award-winning journalist who taught at ASU for more than 30 years, died Saturday from complications due to cancer. He was 72.

Knight-Cronkite Alumni Innovation Grant

Cronkite graduates working at the National Journal and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting are the first recipients of the Knight-Cronkite Alumni Innovation Grant, a special fund to support accelerating innovation in newsrooms across the country.

Jacquee Gaillard Petchel

ASU alumna and faculty member Jacquee Gaillard Petchel has established a new endowed scholarship at the Cronkite School.

Kelly McCullough, Cronkite Hall of Fame

Kelly McCullough, who leads one of the nation’s largest PBS stations, is this year’s inductee into the Alumni Hall of Fame at ASU’s Cronkite School.

The U.S. State Department’s prestigious Edward R. Murrow Program for Journalists is sending a group of international media professionals to ASU’s Cronkite School to witness media coverage of the American electoral process.

Brian Stelter, CNN

CNN Senior Media Correspondent Brian Stelter is the featured speaker of the eighth annual Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture at ASU’s Cronkite School.

Former Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr., the Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Cronkite School, recalls working for the late Ben Bradlee at the Post.

ASU’s Cronkite School and Arizona PBS took home a combined 10 awards at the 2014 Rocky Mountain Emmys.