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Digital media innovator CJ Cornell is named Entrepreneur in Residence at the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Cronkite School. He will help students plan, develop and launch new media products.
Digital media leader Jody Brannon is the new national director of a 12-university, $7.5 million project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to explore new ways to produce in-depth multimedia journalism.
Only about 13 percent of the Washington daily newspaper press corps are journalists of color, according to a study on diversity by UNITY: Journalist of Color, Inc. and the Cronkite School.
Rick Rodriguez, the former executive editor at the Sacramento Bee who joined the Cronkite School faculty earlier this year, is named the school’s first Carnegie Professor specializing in Latino and transnational news coverage.
The Cronkite School recently equipped a hybrid SUV with the tools of journalism, including a television camera, microphones, audio recorders and backdrops, and is taking it to high schools around the state in an attempt to interest students in journalism.
Five Arizona high schools will get fully equipped multimedia newsrooms this fall as part of the Stardust High School Journalism Program, a unique initiative to create newsrooms in high schools.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation are giving the Cronkite School a $7.5 million grant to direct a bold, experimental digital media program at 12 leading U.S. universities.
Seeking to change the way journalism is taught in the United States, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation are investing more than $11 million in the expansion of a national initiative to adapt journalism education to the challenges of a struggling news industry. Three new journalism schools – including the Cronkite School – are joining the effort of redefining journalism education and training a new generation of journalists capable of reshaping the news industry.
Ian Lee and Emily Falkner are among 12 ASU graduates who have been named 2008 Fulbright Scholars. Lee will be studying in Cairo, Egypt, and Falkner will be a teaching assistant in the Slovak Republic.
Cronkite students are documenting the lives of immigrants in South Africa during a two-week reporting trip supported by a grant from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The 10 Cronkite students are joined by students from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Assistant Professor Xu Wu, who teaches public relations in the Cronkite School, is in China advising media organizations, government agencies and research institutes on China’s response to the catastrophic earthquake that struck the country last month. Wu is a specialist in crisis communications.
A Cronkite student documentary on Muslim students at ASU has won two awards for excellence in national and international competitions. “Holy Hunger in the Midst of Plenty,” won a Telly Award and a Videographer Award of Distinction.
The Cronkite School placed in the top 10 in the national Hearst Journalism Awards program for 2007-2008 – the seventh consecutive year that the school has finished in the top 10. Students placed in every category -- broadcast news, multimedia, photography and writing.
Jason Manning, political editor of washingtonpost.com, one of the nation’s leaders in digital media, is moving west to become director of Student Media at Arizona State University.
For the third consecutive year, Cronkite students have finished first in the Society of Professional Journalists’ highly competitive intercollegiate news contest.
N. Christian Anderson III, who led the Orange County Register to two Pulitzer Prizes as editor and later became the newspaper’s award-winning publisher, will join ASU this fall as the Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics.
Former St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editor Ellen Soeteber, the school’s Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics, delivered the keynote convocation address to the 187 newest Cronkite graduates.
ABC News announced the launch of ABC News on Campus, a partnership with the Cronkite School and four other top journalism schools across the country to educate and mentor talented college students.
Newly promoted Associate Professor Carol Schwalbe is the recipient of this year’s ASU Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Classroom Performance.
Aaron Brown will continue his teaching role as the first Walter Cronkite Professor of Journalism while he returns to TV as the new host of the PBS series “Wide Angle.”