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The Cronkite School has received two gifts to support the school’s public relations program.

Cronkite student reporters with faculty members Mark Lodato and Greg Boeck at London's Olympic Stadium

Nineteen students from the Cronkite School are in London to cover the 2012 Olympic Games for Cronkite News Service and other news organizations.

Nine journalism students are participating in the Carnegie-Knight News21 program this summer thanks to support from Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and the Hearst Foundations.

Leonard Downie Jr.

The federal government needs to remove roadblocks to granting nonprofit status to startup news organizations that provide increasingly important accountability journalism in communities around the nation, the former top editor of The Washington Post, now an ASU professor, said in a new report.

Six college journalism students from around the country will enhance their digital media skills at ASU this summer in the Village Voice Digital Media Fellowship Program.

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

Hearst Championships 2012

Three May graduates of the Cronkite School received honors in the national championships of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s Journalism Awards Program.

Thirty-eight high school students will learn digital and broadcast journalism skills this summer at the Cronkite School.

Gangplank, an Arizona nonprofit that fosters creative, collaborative and entrepreneurial working environments, has partnered with Arizona State University to provide a popup workspace on ASU’s Downtown Phoenix campus.

Fifteen business journalism students from the Cronkite School will intern this summer at major news organizations around the country.

Dustin Volz

Cronkite graduate Dustin Volz has received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Indonesia through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.

For the third time in four years, Cronkite students have won the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.

Journalism programs at Central Michigan University, Elon University and Louisiana State University will receive visiting business journalism professors next spring under a $1.67 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.

A major investigation of food safety conducted by the Carnegie-Knight News21 digital news team from five universities is being recognized nationally in journalism competitions.

The president of CBS News encouraged the newest graduates of the Cronkite School to stay true to the values embodied by the school’s namesake as they embark on their journalism careers.

Ben Silver and Marianne Barrett

Ben Silver, an award-winning correspondent for CBS News who later taught broadcast journalism at ASU for nearly 20 years, died Wednesday from complications of Parkinson’s disease at his home in St. Louis Park, Minn. He was 85.

Emmy Award-winning sportscaster Bob Costas will be the 2012 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, ASU announced today.

Cronkite students have won seven awards in the Society of Professional Journalists’ prestigious national Mark of Excellence competition, including best student newscast and best online in-depth report.

Steven Ginsberg

The international program headquarters at the Cronkite School was named today in honor of alumna Adelaida Severson and her husband, Barry.

CBS News President David Rhodes will deliver the keynote graduation address next month at the Cronkite School.