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For the ninth consecutive year, Cronkite students dominate the Society of Professional Journalists' regional student awards competition, capturing 39 awards — almost four times the number won by the second-place school.
Linda Austin, editor and vice president of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader and former business editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, will be the new executive director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at ASU.
A new grant from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation supports a visiting professorship at the Cronkite School. The Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics honors pioneering newswoman Edith Kinney Gaylord.
Cronkite students finish second in the nation in the broadcast news portion of the prestigious Hearst Journalism Awards program. The school has placed in the top six in the broadcast competition every year for the past six years, including three first-place finishes.
Babak Dehghanpisheh, Newsweek’s Baghdad bureau chief and a prize-winning journalist who has extensively covered the Middle East, is the featured speaker at the third annual Paul J. Schatt Memorial Lecture at the Cronkite School March 23.
The Cronkite School marks Sunshine Week, a national initiative encouraging dialogue about open government and freedom of information, with a March 18 panel featuring Attorney General Terry Goddard and other leading voices from media, government and public relations.
A report commissioned by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at the Cronkite School finds that more Americans get their economic news from television than daily newspapers, the Internet and radio combined.
Ted Simons, host of HORIZON on Eight/KAET, interviews the newest member of the Cronkite School faculty, former Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. about his decision to join the Cronkite School and his new fiction book, “The Rules of the Game.”
A Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, two leading journalists from Newsweek, the former editor of The Washington Post and local television news anchors are among the speakers who will be featured at the Cronkite School this spring.
The Knight Chair in Journalism at the Cronkite School and Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. announce the winners of the 2009 Philip Meyer Journalism Award for investigative reports that use social science research methods.
Stephen Doig, professor and Knight Chair in Journalism at the Cronkite School, is at the center of a debate over how large the crowds were at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. Doig used a GeoEye-1 image, plus TV footage and photos from Flickr to come up with his count.
Five Arizona high schools have been selected for the Stardust High School Journalism Program, bringing to 10 the number of schools that are part of a unique initiative to create newsrooms in underserved Arizona high schools.
A first-place finish and two other top five performances propel the Cronkite School into first place in the Hearst Journalism Awards Program’s national broadcast competition.
Leonard Downie Jr., who led The Washington Post to 25 Pulitzer Prizes during his 17 years as executive editor, will be the Flinn Foundation Centennial Lecturer this fall at ASU. Downie will deliver the lecture and visit with students and professors.
For the first time, Cronkite NewsWatch, the Cronkite School’s award-winning student newscast, is airing on Eight/KAET, Arizona’s public television station. The show has a prime-time slot on KAET digital (Cox Cable Channel 88) and over the air on digital channel 8.3.
A Spanish-language version of Cronkite NewsWatch is now being aired on Univision’s TeleFutura network in Phoenix. NewsWatch Espanol is produced by top bilingual students in the Cronkite School.
Arizona Diamondbacks President Derrick Hall delivers the keynote address for the Cronkite School’s December 2008 convocation. A total of 86 students were awarded degrees during the ceremony, the first held in downtown Phoenix.
Cronkite Junior Christie Roshau wins first place in a national public service announcement contest that spotlights the importance of free speech.
Leonard Downie Jr., the longtime executive editor of The Washington Post who led his newspaper to more Pulitzer Prizes than any editor in American journalism history, is joining the faculty of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
Two Cronkite students are among the winners in the feature writing competition of the national Hearst Journalism Awards Program. The wins put the Cronkite School in second place nationally after the first round of the prestigious writing competition.