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For the third consecutive year, Cronkite students have finished first in the Society of Professional Journalists’ highly competitive intercollegiate news contest.
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.”
Eight/KAET-TV, the Arizona PBS station that reaches 1.3 million viewers each week, will air two specials created by Cronkite School.
For the eighth consecutive year, the Cronkite School dominated the Society of Professional Journalists’ regional student competition, winning a remarkable 51 awards – nearly half of all the awards given in the Region 11 SPJ Mark of Excellence competition.
Five Cronkite School students were part of a team from The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com that won first place in this year’s Best of Gannett national award for breaking news coverage. The team was recognized for coverage of the July 27 crash of two TV news helicopters that killed four.
Deanna Dent, a senior in the Cronkite School, is one of nine journalism students from across the country to win the 2008 Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition. She will travel to Japan and South Korea for a 13-day journalism study tour in June, sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation.
The Cronkite School won more awards than any other school in the nation in the latest Broadcast Education Association annual news reporting and interactive media contests, including two of the BEA’s top honors.
Eight university students from around the country who have shown promise in the field of business journalism have been awarded $4,000 scholarships from the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism.
The Cronkite School is hosting 90 high school students from across the state for a daylong workshop on journalism sponsored by the Arizona Latino Media Association. This year’s workshop will focus on multimedia skills.
Cronkite School Professor Donald Godfrey is the recipient of the Broadcast Education Association’s 2008 Distinguished Education Service Award, the group’s highest honor for an individual who has contributed to electronic media education.
Dave Cornelius, a longtime Valley educator who built the state’s premier high school broadcast education program, has joined the Cronkite School as director of the Stardust High School Journalism program. Cornelius will oversee a new initiative to create multimedia newsrooms at underserved Arizona high schools.