Awards news

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.

Cameron Kostopoulos won the Special Jury Award at SXSW for his virtual reality experience documenting the lives of transgender people. 

The Cronkite School is once again the top overall school in the Broadcast Education Association’s (BEA) ranking of schools.

Cronkite students won 31 awards, including four first place finishes and two “Best of Festival” awards.

Andrew Lwowski has won a $3,000 first place prize for the Hearst Journalism Awards Program Sports Writing Competition.

The Shaufler Prize is administered by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.

Gayle King reflected on her life, career and rise to prominence as she accepted the 39th Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Cronkite senior Drake Presto won first place in the Multimedia Narrative Storytelling category for the 2023 Hearst Journalism Awards Program.

The Schneider and Corcoran prizes are the only journalism contests devoted exclusively to the coverage of people with disabilities and disability issues.

The Barlett & Steele Awards are administered by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at the Cronkite School.

Arizona PBS and the Cronkite School won a total of 10 Emmys® and Student Production Awards at the 2022 Rocky Mountain Emmy® Awards.

Entries are now being accepted for the 2022 Shaufler Prize in Journalism administered by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Gayle King, the award-winning co-host of “CBS Mornings,” has been chosen to receive the 39th annual Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Cronkite News has won a Student Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Audio Newscast for its Cronkite News 2Go podcast.

ASU’s Cronkite School placed third overall in the prestigious Hearst Journalism Awards program and scored in the top five in writing, photojournalism and television categories.

The Cronkite School captured three awards — including two first place prizes — at the 64th annual SoCal Journalism Awards hosted by the Los Angeles Press Club.

The Cronkite School and The State Press, ASU’s independent student news outlet, won the most first place awards, and most awards overall, taking top honors in seven categories.

Alex Gould took home first place in the 2022 Greg Crowder Memorial Photojournalism Award contest.