Monday, Oct. 19, 2015 Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel
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Lunch Introductory Remarks Christopher Callahan Dean, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and University Vice Provost, Downtown Phoenix Campus Thanking Our Supporters David J. Bodney Partner, Ballard Spahr and President, Cronkite Endowment Board Introduction of Charlie Rose Yahaira Jacquez Cronkite student Presentation to Charlie Rose of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Dr. Mark S. Searle University Provost, Arizona State University Remarks by Honoree Charlie Rose
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Recipient of the 32nd Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Charlie Rose is the award-winning anchor of “CBS This Morning” and the host of the respected late-night talk show on PBS that bears his name. With more than 40 years of broadcasting experience, Rose is known for his hardhitting, one-on-one interviews on CBS and “Charlie Rose,” his daily late-night interview program that has been syndicated on PBS for more than 20 years. Rose has interviewed Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Nelson Mandela, Toni Morrison, Barack Obama, Yitzhak Rabin and Martin Scorsese, among hundreds of other newsmakers, including Walter Cronkite in 1996. His sit-down with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2013 for “CBS This Morning” won him a Peabody Award for its timely and meaningful look into the face and mind of a tyrant. His show, “Charlie Rose,” premiered in 1991, becoming a popular venue for indepth conversations on politics, performing arts, literature, film, science, medicine and business. In 2011, he was named an anchor of “CBS This Morning,” helping the program become the fastest-growing morning news broadcast in the U.S. Rose had previously worked for CBS News from 1984-1990 as the anchor of “Nightwatch,” the network’s first late-night news broadcast. He won an Emmy in 1987 for his interview with convicted mass murderer Charles Manson. At CBS News, he also served as a substitute anchor for “Face
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the Nation,” “CBS Morning News,” “CBS This Morning” and “Newsbreak.” He also reported for “48 Hours.” Throughout his career, Rose has hosted a number of outside projects, including a special for the Discovery Channel, “One on One with Roger Payne,” for which he won an Emmy in 1992. Rose entered television journalism fulltime as managing editor of the PBS series “Bill Moyers’ Journal” in 1974. He also served as a correspondent for “USA: People and Politics,” a weekly PBS series on the 1976 election, which earned him a Peabody Award. Rose created, produced and hosted “The Charlie Rose Show” for KXAS-TV Dallas/ Fort Worth from 1979-1981 and secured its national syndication in 1981 by moving the program to Washington, D.C., where it was broadcast on WRC-TV from 1981-1984. He also hosted and produced a daily hourlong talk show, “AM/Chicago,” for WLS-TV Chicago from 1978-1979 and served as a correspondent for NBC News in Washington from 1976-1977. A native of North Carolina, Rose is a graduate of Duke University with a bachelor’s degree in history and a J.D. from Duke’s School of Law.
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Cronkite Circle 12 News / KPNX-TV ABC15 APS The Arizona Republic / azcentral.com CBS 5 Morgan Murphy Media / Elizabeth and Richard Burns Louise Solheim Ellie and Michael Ziegler* President’s Circle Arizona Diamondbacks Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Bonneville Media Phoenix Cox Communications / Cox Media The CW6 – KASW Janice and Leonard Downie R&R Partners Donald W. Reynolds Foundation Dean’s Circle Arizona Broadcasters Association Nancy and Don Dedera Arizona Cardinals FOX Sports Arizona Arizona Highways Magazine Friends of Public Radio Arizona / KJZZ Ballard Spahr Hardt & Associates Bushtex, Inc. Marcene Johnson CBS Radio Morgan Murphy Media / Elizabeth CenturyLink and Richard Burns Tom Chauncey – Gust Rosenfeld Owens Harkey Advertising Clear Channel Outdoor Phoenix Suns / Phoenix Mercury Cramer-Krasselt Raza Development Fund / Mixed Voces *Donation
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The Cronkite School is widely recognized as one of the nation’s premier professional journalism programs. Rooted in the timehonored values — accuracy, responsibility, objectivity, integrity — that characterize its namesake, the school fosters journalistic excellence and ethics among students as they master the practical professional skills they need to succeed in the digital journalism world of today and tomorrow. The Cronkite School’s 1,700 students consistently lead the country in national competitions. Over the past decade, Cronkite has been No. 1 in the nation in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence competition and the Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts awards and has finished in the top 10 in the Hearst Journalism Awards each year. Students are guided by a faculty that is made up of both award-winning professional journalists and world-class media scholars. In recent years, the school has
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added to its faculty such leading journalists as former Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr., BET Vice President Retha Hill, Minneapolis Star Tribune Editor Tim McGuire, Sacramento Bee Executive Editor Rick Rodriguez, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jacquee Petchel, Denver Post News Director Kevin Dale and Knight Foundation journalism innovator Eric Newton. The Cronkite School continues to lead the field of journalism education with its innovative use of the “teaching hospital” method, providing both unparalleled learning opportunities for students and important news content to the community, state, region and nation. Arizona PBS, one of the nation’s largest public television stations, is now part of Cronkite, making it the largest media outlet operated by a journalism school in the world. Arizona PBS serves as a hub for the Cronkite School’s full-immersion professional programs and
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a testing ground for new approaches in journalism. Cronkite students participate in a dozen professional immersion programs, guided by award-winning journalists and communications professional, applying what they have learned in the classroom in real-world learning environments. Students cover the most important issues of the day from public affairs news bureaus in Phoenix and Washington. For Arizona PBS, they produce a nightly newscast that reaches 1.9 million households as well as a robust multimedia news website featuring in-depth regional stories. Students also report on sports from bureaus in Los Angles and Phoenix. Students in the Public Relations Lab develop campaigns for client companies, while Carnegie-Knight News21 multimedia journalists conduct national data-driven investigations into issues critical to Americans. In the Public Insight Network Bureau, students work with professional news organizations to deepen their connections to audiences, and in the New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab, they use digital technologies to forge the future of journalism. This past year, more than 70 students in many of these professional immersion programs collaborated to create a statewide TV special on the deadly problem of heroin
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use that reached over 1 million viewers in January. “Hooked: Tracking Heroin’s Hold on Arizona,” produced by the Cronkite School in partnership with the Arizona Broadcasters Association, recently received the region’s highest TV honor, the Governors’ Award from the Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Elsewhere at the school, the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism provides education and training to professional journalists and Cronkite Global Initiatives brings international journalists to the school for study and training. All of these initiatives take place in a state-of-the-art building that is unparalleled in journalism education. ASU’s investment in the school has generated national and international attention from educators and media professionals who place the school in the top tier of all U.S. journalism schools. The Times of London, The New York Times and USA Today have pointed to the Cronkite School as a leading example of changes taking place at journalism schools across the country. These prestigious publications called the Cronkite School a pioneer, kindling a notion of new media that will shape how news is delivered and how people will stay informed in the future.
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The journalism program at Arizona State University was named in honor of former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite in 1984. The relationship started when Tom Chauncey, longtime owner of the CBS affiliate in Phoenix, and his son, Tom Chauncey II, leading supporters of journalism education at ASU, contacted their old friend in an effort to advance the program. An endowment on behalf of the program was soon established, and the school was named after “the most trusted man in America.” Over the next quarter of a century, Cronkite lent much more than his name to the school. He was closely involved — advising leadership, guiding students and faculty and traveling to Arizona each year to personally give the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism to one of the nation’s top journalists. The most special relationship, though, was with “our students,” as Cronkite would always call them. Young women and men, some with parents barely old enough to remember Cronkite behind the anchor desk, lit up when he walked into a classroom. They hung on his every word as he thoughtfully answered their questions about the profession he so loved. They lined up just to shake his hand. And he loved every minute of it. He would talk to many students individually, asking them about their classes, goals and dreams. In what turned out to be Cronkite’s last visit to ASU in 2007 before declining health
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prevented him from traveling, a group of 100 students gathered with just minutes notice that Cronkite was in the building. He held them spellbound as he spoke about covering World War II, Vietnam, Apollo, Watergate and presidents from Truman to Reagan — and of how important “our school” was to him. Although Cronkite died on July 17, 2009, before he was able to visit the school that bears his name in its new downtown Phoenix location, he remains an ever-present part of the school’s heartbeat and direction. His legacy lives on in the spirit and passion with which the school teaches both the skills to do journalism in today’s media environment and the time-honored ethics and news values necessary to do it in the manner that would make our namesake proud. The Cronkite School has established a special memorial fund in Cronkite’s name. For more information on the fund and to learn more about Cronkite’s legacy and career, visit cronkite.asu.edu/rememberingcronkite.
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Each fall, a leading figure in journalism is presented with the prestigious Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. The Cronkite Endowment Board of Trustees selects the recipients. 2014 Robin Roberts 2013 Bob Schieffer 2012 Bob Costas 2011 Christiane Amanpour 2010 Diane Sawyer 2009 Brian Williams 2008 Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil 2007 Jane Pauley 2006 Tom Brokaw 2005 Dave Barry
Lynn Agnello Ray Artigue Susan Bitter Smith Kristin Bloomquist David Bodney Art Brooks Elizabeth Murphy Burns Christopher Callahan Paula Casey Tom Chauncey Jack Clifford Araceli De Leon Michael Dee David Eichler Elvira Espinoza Kristin Gilger Derrick Hall Scott Harkey
2004 Charles Osgood 2003 Andy Rooney 2002 Al Michaels 2001 Bob Woodward 2000 Cokie Roberts 1999 Tom Johnson 1998 Ben Bradlee 1997 Roone Arledge 1996 Charles Kuralt 1995 Bill Moyers 1994 Bernard Shaw
John Hatfield Anita Helt Brian Hogan Win Holden Rich Howe Gordon James Laura Jordan Susan Karis Randy Lovely Fran Mallace Michael Mallace Kelly McCullough Denise McManus Joe Milner John Misner Art Mobley Manny Molina Mary Morrison
1993 Helen Thomas 1992 Don Hewitt 1991 George Will 1990 Ted Turner 1989 Malcolm Forbes 1988 Allen H. Neuharth 1987 Katharine Graham 1986 Otis Chandler 1985 Bill Mauldin 1984 William Paley and Frank Stanton
Ed Munson Jim Paluzzi Tim Pohlman Tim Riester Jose Rodiles Mark Rodman Jason Rowley Ray Schey Matt Silverman Robert Stieve Scott Sutherland James Taszarek Diane Veres Clancy Woods Roberto Yañez John Zidich
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication 555 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85004-1248 cronkite.asu.edu
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