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“CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King accepts 39th Cronkite Award
Gayle King reflected on her life, career and rise to prominence as she accepted the 39th Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Cronkite Contentpreneurs: Twin brothers establish popular social media brand to promote athletes
Michael and Anthony Yero manage 305 Sports and Yero Step, two popular social media imprints that offer sports news and updates.

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

Cronkite School students will cover Super Bowl 57
The Cronkite School will send its own media contingent to cover the biggest sporting event of the year.

Cronkite graduate student makes history as hockey broadcaster
Trey Matthews just became the second African American man to serve as a play-by-play announcer in the Canadian Hockey League.

Scripps Howard Foundation announces spring class of Roy W. Howard fellows
The Scripps Howard Foundation established the fellowship program in 2020 in honor of Roy W. Howard, legendary journalist and news executive of The E.W. Scripps Company.

Incoming Cronkite student wins Heisman High School Scholarship
The Heisman High School Scholarship program is administered by the Heisman Trophy to award the most esteemed male and female high school senior scholar-athletes.

Cronkite News Co/Lab initiative spent a year researching how to bolster, improve news for small communities
An Arizona State University student-led project has developed ideas for local news organization Wick Communications on how to engage the community.

Cronkite school to launch new strategic communications agency
The Cronkite School is combining two of its award-winning programs to form a new integrated strategic communications agency.

Student highlight: Online degree allows Cronkite student to pursue increased opportunities
After 16 years of working as a journalist, Paul “Red” Miller wanted to finally get a degree in the career that he considered his calling, so he enrolled at the Cronkite School.

ASU Trustee and Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame inductee Christine Devine to give convocation speech
ASU Trustee and Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame inductee Christine Devine will deliver the keynote address at the Cronkite School's Fall 2022 Convocation.

Investigative editors, journalists discuss the benefits of collegiate investigative journalism programs
The panel, “The Role of Collegiate Investigative Programs in Professional Journalism,” examined the importance of programs that allow students to delve into investigative work.

Seven students travel to Argentina for Cronkite’s first internship abroad program
Cronkite students visited Argentina as the first cohort of a study abroad internship program implemented by the Cronkite Global Initiatives and the Career and Professional Development teams.

ABC News visits Cronkite School to broadcast popular shows, interact with students
ABC News visited the Cronkite School to host its popular news shows “GMA3” and “This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

Princeton Review names ASU’s Blaze Radio number one college radio station in the US
The Princeton Review rated Blaze Radio as the 2021 Best College Radio Station in the country.

Cronkite/ICT fellowship welcomes first student
Noel Lyn Smith has been selected to participate in a new graduate partnership between the Cronkite School, the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) and ICT, formerly Indian Country Today.

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

Cronkite News students win three awards at LA Press Club contest
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.

Cronkite students win most top honors at national SPJ collegiate awards
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.

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