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Anita Luera, a long-time journalist and past president of the Arizona Latino Media Association, is the first director of high school journalism programs for the Cronkite School.

The Cronkite School will receive a major grant from the Knight Foundation to establish a new center devoted to the development of new media entrepreneurship and the creation of innovative digital media products.

Cronkite students finished first in the Society of Professional Journalists national Mark of Excellence awards contest for the second consecutive year.

A 30-minute primetime special on Eight/KAET, Arizona’s public television station, showcased the work of advanced television news students at the Cronkite School.

The Cronkite School is one of the primary sponsors of this year’s Investigative Reporters and Editors conference to be held in Phoenix in June.

With former CNN anchor Aaron Brown delivering the keynote address, the Cronkite School graduated 196 bachelor’s degree candidates and 15 master’s degree candidates at its spring convocation.

Cronkite School students swept the Society of Professional Journalists regional awards for the seventh year in a row and the ninth time in 10 years, taking home 35 awards.

Award-winning broadcast journalist Aaron Brown will deliver the keynote address at the spring convocation for graduates of the Cronkite School.

Three-fourths of the nation’s largest newspapers now offer blogs on business-related topics, according to a study released by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University.

The Cronkite School finished first in the nation in the annual Hearst Journalism Awards, often called the Pulitzer Prizes of college journalism. This year’s victory follows two consecutive second-place finishes and marks the school’s sixth consecutive Top 10 finish in the prestigious competition.

Professor Donald Godfrey, a long-time member of the Cronkite faculty, has been named a recipient of the 2007 Silver Circle Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

The Cronkite School is first in the nation for broadcast news in the prestigious Hearst Journalism Awards program.

James N. Crutchfield, a former major newspaper publisher and editor, will become director of Student Media at Arizona State University and the Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Cronkite School.

The Cronkite School will help train high school journalism teachers from around the country through a new program created by the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation.

For the first time ever, a student has won back-to-back awards as the nation’s best collegiate TV news reporter.

Two Cronkite students sweep the first collegiate awards given by the National Press Photographers Association.

Dean Christopher Callahan talks about the future of the Cronkite School on a new podcast produced by the ASU Office of the President.

Dean Christopher Callahan writes in The Arizona Republic that the future of journalism education must focus on both emerging media technologies and traditional journalism values.

The Cronkite School’s new home in downtown Phoenix will be a six-story communications center with five newsrooms, eight digital labs, two TV studio, a public forum and a student resources center.

Former CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite joined Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and ASU President Michael Crow to break ground on the new $71 million building that will house his journalism school in downtown Phoenix.