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Jonathan Higuera, a veteran business reporter for The Arizona Republic, has been named deputy director of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at the Cronkite School.

The Arizona Republic and the Cronkite School are launching a multimedia reporting program that will prepare students for 21st century newsgathering while providing breaking news content for azcentral.com, the Republic’s news Web site.

The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism is designating 15 educators from major universities as fellows for its inaugural Business Journalism Professor Seminar.

More than 60 Cronkite students, faculty and staff produced more than two hours of live Arizona election night coverage for local cable stations.

A national radio executive and a ground-breaking Native American journalist will be the newest inductees into the Cronkite School Alumni Hall of Fame. Susan Karis and Mary Kim Titla will be recognized Nov. 14 at the school’s 23rd Annual Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Lunch.

Top broadcast news students at the Cronkite School now have their best TV work featured on MSNBC under a new partnership with the national news network.

Kristin Gilger, an award-winning journalist who was a top editor at The Arizona Republic before directing student media at Arizona State University, will join the Cronkite School as assistant dean in charge of professional programs

James N. Crutchfield, a top editor who became one of the nation’s only African American publishers of a major metropolitan newspaper, will join the Cronkite School for the spring semester as the first Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics.

Public relations students at the Cronkite School claimed victory at the NASA Means Business competition for the third year in a row.

A national leader in online news is leading a new lab that will help create multimedia products for Gannett and other news companies.

The Reynolds Center launches new initiatives to improve business journalism training at the university level.

Derrick Hall, a Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame member, is the new president of the Arizona Diamondbacks

Cronkite students won six national magazine awards while one of their teachers was named the nation’s top “promising professor” here at the annual meeting of journalism educators.

Meredith Corp., CBS 5 and the Cronkite School are launching a nationwide fellowship program for minority broadcast journalism students.

The Cronkite School raised more than $100,000 from a fundraising challenge from philanthropists Ira and Mary Lou Fulton.

Steve Elliott, former Phoenix bureau chief for The Associated Press, will be the founding director of the Cronkite News Service print program

A new national study conducted by the Cronkite School for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists finds coverage of Latinos is sorely lacking in U.S. news magazines.

Two leading Phoenix journalists are joining the faculty to expand the Cronkite School’s award-winning TV newscast and create a new program to provide news packages to stations around the state.

Cronkite newspaper students dominate the “Best of the West” journalism competition while students specializing in online, public relations and magazines all are winning national and regional accolades.

The Cronkite School is the new home of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, thanks to a $3.5 million grant that is the largest gift in school history.