Christine Devine, the Emmy Award-winning Los Angeles news anchor and 1987 graduate of ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is making a $50,000 gift to help kick off a fund-raising campaign for the school’s new home.
Peek inside ASU’s New Media Innovation Lab, and you’ll see journalism, engineering, business and design students collaborating to build new media products for companies such as Gannett Co., the nation’s largest newspaper publisher.
Anita Luera, a longtime journalist and past president of the Arizona Latino Media Association, is the first director of high school journalism programs for the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU.
Jane Pauley, the long-time popular anchor of NBC’s “Today” show and founding co-host of “Dateline NBC,” will be this year’s recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication will receive a major grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to establish a new center at the university devoted to the development of new media entrepreneurship and the creation of innovative digital media products.
Donald Godfrey, a professor at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, has been named a recipient of the 2007 Silver Circle Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS).
The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication has been named first in the nation in the annual Hearst Journalism Awards, often called the Pulitzer Prizes of college journalism.
Gary McMahan has been named Eight's new associate director of development, according to Greg Giczi, the station's general manager. McMahan will be responsible for securing philanthropic resources and support for the station, including major giving, planned giving, fund-raising events, and grants.
James N. Crutchfield, a former major newspaper publisher and editor, has been named ASU's director of student media. Additionally, Crutchfield was appointed to the Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Former CNN anchor Aaron Brown is stepping away from the camera and up to the podium as he joins prestigious faculty at ASU's Barrett, the Honors College and Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.