Awards news

Wolf Blitzer

Wolf Blitzer will receive the 41st Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism at a ceremony on Feb. 4.

Howard Center reporters

The Howard Center won the 3M Truth in Science Award in the Online News Association (ONA) 2024 Online Journalism Awards.

Cronkite School Wins Top Honors at the 2021-2022 Hearst Journalism Awards

The Cronkite School ranked among the top universities in the prestigious Hearst Journalism Awards Program.

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Arizona State University students captured three national Society of Professional Journalists 2023 Mark of Excellence Awards.

Cronkite Agency students

The agency took the prize in the Leadership in Community Service category for a number campaigns its students completed during the spring 2023 and summer 2023 semesters.

Webby Awards

News21 joins past Grand Prize honorees that include The New York Times, The Washington Post, Frontline and The Associated Press.

Spring 2024 Convocation

The Cronkite School convocation celebrated the achievements of nearly 370 graduates.

Angela Hill

Cronkite School professor Angela M. Hill was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for the Washington Post investigative series “American Icon.”

Retha Hill

Retha Hill is an award-winning journalist, entrepreneur and professor at the Cronkite School.

Webby Awards

Carnegie-Knight News21 took home a “People’s Voice” Webby Award in the student video category for its national examination of the impact of the reversal of Roe v. Wade.

BEA School Rankings

The Cronkite School took the top spot in the Broadcast Education Association’s (BEA) ranking of schools based on the creative achievements of their students.

Pulitzer on the Road

The Cronkite School will help launch the new ‘Pulitzer on the Road’ series with a March 25 panel discussion.

Cronkite Agency BIG Innovation Award

The Cronkite Agency won the Business Intelligence Group's 2024 BIG Innovation Award.

020-2021 Shaufler Prize in Journalism

Hannah Dreier of the New York Times has been awarded first place in the 2023 Shaufler Prize in Journalism.

BEA Festival

The Cronkite School took 23 awards, including five first place finishes, at the 2024 Broadcast Education Association’s (BEA) Festival of Media Arts contest.

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David Muir, the award-winning anchor and managing editor of “ABC World News Tonight with David Muir,” accepted the 40th Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Fall convocation

Louis Carr, president of media sales at Black Entertainment Television (BET), served as the keynote speaker for the ceremony. 

2023 Eppy Awards

The Cronkite School took home a collective nine prizes in the prestigious 2023 Editor & Publisher Magazine EPPY Awards contest. 

Marcom Awards Dot Comm Awards

The Cronkite Agency won multiple prizes during the 2023 dotComm and MarCom international awards competitions, which honor excellence in communication, web creativity and digital marketing.

Athena Ankrum

Recent Cronkite graduate Athena Ankrah won a 2023 national student Edward R. Murrow Award in the Audio Feature Reporting category for a story highlighting the challenges encountered by Black farmers.