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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.

Michael and Anthony Yero

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.

Drake Presto, Hearts Award winner

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.

Olivia Eisenhauer, Super Bowl LVII, NFL

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.

Trey Matthews

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.

Howard Fellows

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.

Viva Kreis, Heisman Scholarship

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.

Voices Listening Project

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.

Nicole Macias and John Nicoletti

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.

Cronkite alumnus Red Miller

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.

Christine Devine

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.

The Role of Collegiate Investigative Programs in Professional Journalism

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.

study abroad, Argentina

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.

GMA3 Good Morning America

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."

Blaze Radio ranked no. 1 in country

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.

Noel Lyn Smith

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.

Murrow Award

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.

David Rodish

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.

spj award, society of professional journalists, mark of excellence

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.

Alex Gould

Cronkite senior wins Crowder Photojournalism Award

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