Awards news
The Cronkite School took 23 awards, including five first place finishes, at the 2024 Broadcast Education Association’s (BEA) Festival of Media Arts contest.
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.
Louis Carr, president of media sales at Black Entertainment Television (BET), served as the keynote speaker for the ceremony.
The Cronkite School took home a collective nine prizes in the prestigious 2023 Editor & Publisher Magazine EPPY Awards contest.
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.
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.
The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism took first place in the Outstanding Student Reporting category for the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) 22nd Annual Awards contest.
The NCDJ announced the winners of the 2023 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award and the Gary Corcoran Student Prize for Excellence in Reporting on Disability.
The Reynolds Center will spotlight the recipients of the top prizes at an event on Nov. 1 at 6 p.m. Arizona time in the First Amendment Forum at the Cronkite School in Downtown Phoenix.
MLB Hall of Famer Randy Johnson served as the guest speaker at Cronkite School’s Greg Crowder Memorial Photojournalism Award ceremony.
Muir, who is also co-anchor of ABC’s “20/20,” will be recognized during the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism luncheon on Feb. 8, 2024, at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown.
The Cronkite School won eight Student Production Awards from the Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
The Shaufler Prize in Journalism is administered by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
The Cronkite School received 28 nominations for the prestigious Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Student Production Awards.
ASU students took home five national awards at the Society of Professional Journalists 2022 Mark of Excellence Awards, more than any other university in the nation.
Arizona State University's Zócalo Public Square and students from the Cronkite School brought home multiple wins from the 65th Annual SoCal Journalism Award Awards on June 25.
The National Center on Disability and Journalism (NCDJ) is now accepting entries for the 2023 Katherine Schneider Journalism Award for Excellence in Reporting on Disability.
Eleven alumni from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University were named to the Sun Devil 100 Class of 2023.
Cronkite School faculty member Karen Bordeleau was honored for a career that has spanned more than four decades.
Stories focusing on Covid and the Myanmar Military took top prizes in the 2023 Human Rights Press Awards.