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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.

Jim Dove, Cronkite School

After leading ASU’s Cronkite School to new technological heights, Jim Dove, who recently retired as the school’s chief broadcast engineer, will receive the highest honor given at the Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards.

In a highly unusual collaboration, every broadcast TV station and most radio outlets across Arizona will air simultaneously a 30-minute commercial-free investigative report produced by ASU student journalists on the growing perils of heroin and opioid use.

Dan Barry, New York Times

A New York Times story about a group of men with intellectual disabilities who worked in servitude for decades has won top honors in the 2014 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability.

Robin Roberts Cronkite Award

Award-winning journalist Robin Roberts of ABC’s “Good Morning America” extolled the importance of living life with optimism and faith as she accepted the 2014 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Monday from ASU.

ProPublica, Reuters and The Huffington Post won gold, silver and bronze awards, respectively, in the eighth annual Barlett & Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism.

Cronkite Day

The Cronkite School is hosting Cronkite Day, an annual large-scale alumni celebration, on Friday, Oct. 31, as part of ASU’s Homecoming 2014.

A national investigation by Carnegie-Knight News21 into the fate of veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan has received the Online News Association’s top award for student reporting in 2014.

ASU students at the Cronkite School amassed 22 Student Production Award nominations in the 2014 Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards — seven more than the rest of the field combined.