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ASU is joining with the Valley of the Sun YMCA to host the 45th edition of the Grand Canyon State’s oldest running event – the Y Race Phoenix.

Native American students from nine states will participate in a digital journalism program this week at the Cronkite School.

The National Center on Disability and Journalism at ASU is accepting submissions for a new national journalism awards contest recognizing excellence in reporting on disability issues and people with disabilities.

The J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board has announced the selection of ASU Professor Andrew Leckey as a Fulbright Scholar to China for the 2014 spring term. He will teach business journalism at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China.

The Maricopa County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has recognized Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, an associate professor at ASU’s Cronkite School, for outstanding teaching and exemplary community leadership service.

Registration is now open for two day-long training programs at the Cronkite School for people interested in how to self-publish on e-books and who want to learn to use social media in a strategic way.

An ASU senior from Scottsdale has won the national television championship in the prestigious Hearst Journalism Awards Program.

Thirty-four high school students, many from underrepresented communities, are learning journalism this summer through two residential programs at Cronkite.

ASU is launching a program designed to bring together the worlds of journalism and medical science.

Thirty-four high school journalism teachers from around the country will enhance their skills at ASU this month in a training program funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and operated by the American Society of News Editors.

Cronkite students earned recognition this spring for accomplishments in reporting, producing, photography, entrepreneurship and digital innovation.

Associate Professor Fran Matera, director of the Public Relations Lab at Cronkite, was recognized this spring as one of ASU’s outstanding faculty members.

Arizona State University students won 12 awards in the Society of Professional Journalists’ prestigious national Mark of Excellence competition, more than double the number of any other university in the country.

Leonard Downie Jr., vice president at large of The Washington Post and Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Cronkite School, makes the case in a Post opinion piece that the Obama administration is undermining investigative journalism in the U.S.

Bob Schieffer

Bob Schieffer, the award-winning CBS News correspondent and longtime anchor of “Face the Nation,” will be the 2013 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, ASU announced.

The Society of Professional Journalists presented a special First Amendment Award to the Cronkite School for a national multimedia investigative reporting project on voter rights and voting fraud.

Ian Punnett

National media personality and noted author Ian Punnett will join the Cronkite School at Arizona State University this fall as a doctoral student.

Jacquee Petchel

The national director of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program urged graduates of the Cronkite School to "pay it forward," giving back to their professions and others as they embark on their careers.

Brittany Morris, a junior in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been awarded a research scholarship from the Center for Religion and Conflict to travel to Kuwait to study the participation of Muslim women in civil society.

Journalism programs at the University of Oklahoma and California State University, Fullerton will receive visiting business journalism professors next spring under an ASU program funded by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.