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Cronkite students sweep a national intercollegiate journalism competition that honors the best of global news coverage. The winners were all students of Associate Professor Carol Schwalbe, who specializes in multimedia journalism and magazine writing.

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An innovative news project, developed by two students at Cronkite’s Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, wins a Knight News Challenge grant.

Thirty-five high school teachers from 14 states are participating in an intensive journalism boot camp at the Cronkite School this month. The program is sponsored by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation and administered by the American Society of News Editors.

Cronkite students win Hearst medallions: (from left) Jill Galus and Colton Shone, radio finalists; and Amber Dixon and Liz McKernan, TV finalists.

Cronkite sophomore Colton Shone is this year’s national champion in the Hearst Journalism Awards program for his work in radio reporting.

Young adults rely heavily on the Internet for economic news, according to a new nationwide study by the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism.

The Cronkite School is first in the nation in the Hearst Journalism Awards, considered the Pulitzers of college journalism. Cronkite has won the competition twice in the past three years and finished first or second in four of the past five years.

A television special goes behind the scenes of a Cronkite School student reporting project in South Africa. The news magazine airs on Eight/KAET’s “Eight World” program and is featured on the KAET Web site.

The Commission on the Status of Women at Arizona State University honors Cronkite Dean Christopher Callahan for his work to advance the status of women at ASU.

For a remarkable fourth consecutive year, Cronkite students finish first nationally in the Society of Professional Journalists' intercollegiate news contest.

Catherine Anaya

CBS 5 News anchor Catherine Anaya urges graduating Cronkite students to be fearless and preserve their integrity as they step into an ever-changing field.

The Cronkite School is launching a doctoral program designed for professional journalists and communicators seeking to enter the world of scholarship and research. It will be the only mass communication Ph.D. program in Arizona and one of the few in the western U.S.

The Society of American Business Editors and Writers is moving its national headquarters to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism.

Thousands of aspiring young journalists and their teachers gather in downtown Phoenix for the Journalism Education Association and the National Scholastic Press Association convention, the largest high school journalism conference in the country.

Julie Cart

Julie Cart, a 1980 journalism graduate of ASU and member of the Cronkite School Alumni Hall of Fame, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a powerful Los Angeles Times series on fighting wildfires.

The New York Times features the Cronkite School and its focus on innovation, entrepreneurship and the digital future in a major story about journalism education.

A Cronkite student project on families divided by the U.S.-Mexico border wins a prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for college print journalism.

Brian Williams

“NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams will be this year’s recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

More than 60 journalism students and professors from 12 of the nation’s top journalism programs gather ASU for an intensive digital media symposium, part of the Carnegie-Knight News21 initiative.

The Cronkite School is opening the Cronkite New Media Academy this summer in response to a growing demand for multimedia and Web training. Participants will learn how to set up and maintain fully functional, multimedia-rich Web sites.

The Cronkite School is featured in a new video by Apple highlighting the unique relationship between the journalism school and the technology giant.