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Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil, the PBS news anchor duo, receive the 25th annual Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation announced two grants totaling $5,336,360 to make ASU a global hub of business journalism education by endowing a faculty chair and expanding the work of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. With the grant, the Cronkite School will create the Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism and build a specialization in business and economics journalism.
David Heath, an investigative reporter at The Seattle Times, and Brian Grow, a senior writer at BusinessWeek, the winners of the 2008 Barlett and Steele Awards for Investigative Business Journalism, discuss their work as part of a business journalism panel during Cronkite Week.
The Cronkite School celebrates the official grand opening of its new home in the hub of downtown Phoenix with local and state dignitaries lauding the building as the most technologically advanced journalism school in the country.
The Marguerite and Jack Clifford Gallery, housing hundreds of artifacts that honor the career of Walter Cronkite and the history of journalism, is now open at the Cronkite School.
The Arizona Republic highlights the past, present and future of the Cronkite School on the eve of Cronkite Week, an historic and unprecedented five-day celebration.
Three students in the Cronkite School are among the honorees in the Emmy Awards given by the Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In all, six students and one recent graduate were nominated for 2008 Emmy honors.
The new home of the Cronkite School will serve as an election night hub, with top analysts providing commentary, students and community members watching the returns in the First Amendment Forum and advanced students producing three hours of live TV election coverage.
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University was the focus of a recent “Newsmaker Sunday,” the 30-minute public affairs show on Fox10.
For the second year in a row, a Cronkite senior is one of the Scripps Howard Foundation’s top 10 journalism students in the country. Deanna Dent of Tempe won a $10,000 scholarship for her academic and journalistic achievements.
Leonard Downie Jr., former executive editor of the Washington Post, talks about his career, the future of the news business and what makes good journalism during a visit to ASU and the Cronkite School.
Professor John Craft, the senior member of the Cronkite faculty, is the winner of the first Jack Clifford Broadcast Educator of the Year Award, given by the Arizona Broadcasters Association. He will be honored Oct. 16 at the association 19th Annual Hall of Fame Dinner.
The Cronkite School will host a week of special events Nov. 17-21 celebrating the school’s 25th anniversary and the dedication of its new building in downtown Phoenix.
The executive editor of The Arizona Republic, Nicole Carroll, is the newest member of the Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame. Carroll, who graduated from the Cronkite School in 1991, was named to the Republic’s No. 2 newsroom position earlier this year. At age 40, she is one of the youngest executive editors of a major metropolitan newspaper.
A five-story light sculpture is attracting attention at the new Cronkite School building in downtown Phoenix. The artwork, designed by Paul Deeb of Vox Arts, Baltimore, replaces what would be ordinary windows in the main stairwell on the south side of the building.
The Society of American Business Editors and Writers announces that it will hold its 2010 annual conference at the Cronkite School’s new facility in downtown Phoenix. The SABEW, a not-for-profit organization of business journalists, promotes business journalism through education.
For the second year in a row, Cronkite students dominated the national AEJMC student magazine contest, winning more awards than students from any other university in the country.
The Cronkite School has raised more than $2.6 million to help fund digital equipment and specialized student programs in the school’s newly opened home on ASU’s downtown Phoenix campus.
The new Phoenix home of the Cronkite School officially opens Monday, a spectacular 21st century learning center designed to teach and inspire digital media innovation while capitalizing on a premier location in the heart of the nation’s fifth-largest city.
The Cronkite School is hosting special programs every day for students and the general public during the inaugural semester of the school’s new downtown Phoenix home.