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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.
The Arizona Republic and its Web site, azcentral.com, published a nine-story package created by a Cronkite School class that explores the slaying of investigative reporter Don Bolles on the 30th anniversary of his murder.
Students from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication won more national awards in this year’s Society of Professional Journalist’s intercollegiate journalism competition than any other school in the nation.
Aaron Brown, the former lead anchor for CNN, will join the Cronkite School faculty for Spring ’07 as the Barrett Honors College’s John J. Rhodes Chair.
Top newspaper executive Sue Clark-Johnson told graduating Cronkite School students that the media world is in the midst of a “wild-fire transition” that presents both great challenges and unparalleled opportunities.
Tom Brokaw, who anchored NBC’s nightly newscast for more than 20 years, will be this year’s recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Cronkite School Associate Dean Marianne Barrett is named the Solheim Professor, thanks to a generous gift from philanthropist Louise Solheim.
The general managers of eight major television stations in Phoenix met at a Cronkite School forum to discuss the future of local television in the wake of the digital technological revolution. Read Laura Newpoff’s story from the Business Journal of Phoenix.
A student from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been named the top collegiate television reporter in the United States.
Dennis Shane Mitchell, a Cronkite School sophomore who was Arizona’s high school journalist of the year two years ago, was named the inaugural recipient of the Leroy F. Aarons Scholarship from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalist Association.
Twenty percent of all examined newspaper articles about common neurological conditions had medical errors or exaggerations, according to a new study by Mayo Clinic physicians and Cronkite School researchers.
The Cronkite School will be housed in a new, state-of-the-art journalism complex in downtown Phoenix by 2008 thanks to voters’ overwhelming approval of $223 million in bond money to help fund ASU’s new Downtown Phoenix campus.
A top journalist will join the Cronkite School each spring semester as the Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor of Journalism Ethics thanks to a generous gift from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.
Carol Schwalbe won the Broadcast Education Association’s Best of Competition for an innovative and in-depth Web site she created for her Online Media class.
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists selected the Cronkite School to conduct an in-depth analysis of coverage of Latinos by the nation’s three leading news magazines.
Ray Artigue, a longtime member of the Cronkite Endowment Board and a member of the Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame, is stepping down from his job as senior vice president of the Phoenix Suns to join ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business as executive director of its MBA Sports Business program.
A team from the Cronkite School will conduct an in-depth photojournalism project in Mexico exploring the plight of children living in the borderlands region thanks to a generous gift from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
Cronkite School students spent part of their Christmas holiday participating in an experimental collaboration between the school and the Arizona Republic. Students equipped with laptops provided azcentral.com users with real-time reports about traffic at the airport and area malls. Republic editors declared the experiment a success in this story in Gannett News Watch.