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Two Cronkite students take first and third places in the Hearst competition for editorial writing while six others are honored for their feature writing.

The co-founder of Politico, a TV news anchor, a Google marketing expert and student digital inventors will headline the Must See Monday speaker series this semester.

News21, a national initiative to educate the next generation of journalists, is showcasing the best work produced by student journalists at 12 leading universities.

Award-winning New York Times business writer Leslie Wayne is the first Donald W. Reynolds Visiting Professor, thanks to a new grant from the Reynolds Foundation.

The Cronkite School will help train high school journalism teachers from around the country for the next five years through a new grant by the Reynolds Foundation.

Registration is open for the third Cronkite New Media Academy, offering 10 Saturday sessions to develop multimedia Web skills.

Longtime Washington Post editor Leonard Downie Jr. delivers the keynote address at the Cronkite School’s December 2009 convocation. Ninety-six students received degrees.

Dean Christopher Callahan writes about the Cronkite School’s interview with controversial Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in The Arizona Republic.

Andrew Leckey, the Donald W. Reynolds Chair in Business Journalism at the Cronkite School, discusses Comcast’s purchase of NBC on the PBS “NewsHour.”

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism awards a total of 23 fellowships to journalists for seminars to be held at Cronkite next year.

Perk Rankin, professor emeritus, founding member of the Cronkite Endowment Board and former Newsweek executive, died at his Tempe home. He was 92.

Three Cronkite professors interviewing Sheriff Joe Arpaio will air live on a big video screen outside the school and on the Internet to accommodate heavy public interest.

Read the coverage of Brian Williams receiving the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, and watch the NBC News anchor’s acceptance speech and a special video tribute.

Brian Williams

The anchor and managing editor of the “NBC Nightly News” receives the 26th annual Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Cronkite School before an audience of more than 1,200 in Phoenix.

Brian Williams hosts the “NBC Nightly News” live from the rooftop of the Cronkite School Tuesday. Williams is the recipient of this year’s Walter Cronkite Award of Excellence in Journalism.

Chip Dean

Chip Dean, award-winning director of ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” and a 1977 ASU graduate, is the newest member of the Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame.

A new book by Cronkite Professor Ed Sylvester argues that government biodefense policies are really making Americans more vulnerable to terrorism.

Leonard Downie Jr., the former Washington Post editor and newest Cronkite professor, writes about the future of journalism in a powerful new study.

LEED Certification

The Cronkite School’s new downtown Phoenix building earns a silver certification for sustainability citation from the U.S. Green Building Council. The award will be given during the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Phoenix.

Cronkite students are honored in the 2009 Emmy Awards given by the Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Five Cronkite School productions are nominated in the Student Production category and one in a professional category.