Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Arizona State University
Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism honoring
Scott Pelley Nov. 21, 2016
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Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
Menu Mixed field greens with confit red and golden beets, shaved carrots, goat cheese and ruby red grapefruit vinaigrette
Honey ginger roasted chicken breast with coconut-scented jasmine rice, roasted long beans, baby carrots and zucchini with a citrus cream sauce White chocolate pot de crème with pumpkin madeline, candied ginger, whipped cream and a copper white chocolate garnish
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with 2016 recipient
Scott Pelley
Introductory Remarks Christopher Callahan Dean, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and University Vice Provost, Downtown Phoenix Campus Thanking Our Supporters Kristin Bloomquist Executive Vice President, LaneTerralever, and president, Cronkite Endowment Board Introduction of Scott Pelley Veronica Acosta Cronkite student Presentation of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Dr. Mark S. Searle University Provost, Arizona State University Remarks by Honoree Scott Pelley
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Photos courtesy of Douglas A. Anderson
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Scott Pelley Recipient of the 33rd Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
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Scott Pelley is the award-winning anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News” and a correspondent for “60 Minutes,” the most-watched television news program in America. With more than 40 years of journalism experience, Pelley has reported on nearly every major news story of the past quarter century. He has interviewed world leaders and top newsmakers, including Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Pelley, who assumed the anchor desk in 2011, has led the “CBS Evening News” to new heights by growing its audience and winning journalism’s most prestigious awards, including the George Foster Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, two George Polk Awards, six Emmys, 13 Edward R. Murrow Awards and a host of additional honors. Under his leadership, the “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley” has expanded its audience for five consecutive seasons and achieved its highest ratings in 10 years. Pelley joined CBS News in 1989 and reported on the Persian Gulf crisis, covering Iraqi missile attacks on Saudi Arabia. He also was among the first journalists to report from the World Trade Center site during the Sept. 11 attacks. Pelley was named chief White House correspondent for CBS News in 1997, and
in 2004, he became a correspondent for “60 Minutes.” His work on the latter program has won 30 Emmys, five Murrow Awards, three Peabody Awards, three duPont Awards and a Polk Award, among others. Some of Pelley’s most recent “60 Minutes” assignments include a report on the terror attacks in Paris, an interview with CIA Director John Brennan, and a report on the critical lapses in the U.S. security clearance process that allowed National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden and others to gain access to America’s defense secrets. Pelley also reported on the August 2013 sarin gas attack in Syria that U.S. authorities estimate killed more than 1,400 civilians. For that story, Pelley traveled to the Syrian border to interview survivors and witnesses of the attack. Shortly after, on the 49th season premiere of “60 Minutes,” he interviewed Jordan’s King Abdullah II on terrorism, civil war and the refugee crisis. A native of Texas, Pelley began his journalism career at the age of 15 as a copyboy at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal newspaper. He went on to work as a producer/reporter for WFAA-TV and KXAS-TV in Dallas/Fort Worth and KSEL-TV in Lubbock, Texas. He attended Texas Tech University and is a member of the university’s Alumni Hall of Fame. Pelley also serves on the board of directors of the International Rescue Committee, the refugee relief agency headquartered in New York City.
Photo courtesy of CBS
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WALTER
CRONKITE SCHOOL
The Cronkite School offers unparalleled journalism experiences. Students recently have covered the Super Bowl in Phoenix, the Democratic and Republican National Conventions and the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. With a reporting class planned for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Cronkite students receive real-world training in live environments.
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 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.
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Cronkite professors include Pulitzer Prizewinning journalists, digital media thought leaders, top TV producers and correspondents, major metropolitan newspaper editors and strategic communications experts. They are master teachers, writers and scholars who often speak around the globe on the most important topics facing journalists today. The Cronkite School is a leader in journalism education with its innovative use of the “teaching hospital” model, which provides both unparalleled learning opportunities for students and important news content to the community, state, region and nation. In the school’s dozen professional immersion programs, students apply what they have learned in the classroom in real-world learning environments. They cover the most important issues of the day from public affairs news bureaus in Phoenix and Washington, D.C., and report on sports from bureaus in Los Angeles and Phoenix.
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Cronkite Endowment Board of Trustees 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. Arizona PBS, one of the nation’s largest public television stations, is 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 a testing ground for innovation in journalism. Students produce a nightly newscast that reaches 1.9 million households on Arizona PBS. More than 70 students in many of these professional immersion programs collaborated to create a statewide TV special on the deadly problem of heroin use that reached more than 1 million viewers last year. “Hooked: Tracking Heroin’s Hold on Arizona,” produced by the Cronkite School in partnership with the Arizona Broadcasters Association, received numerous honors, including the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. 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 and sends students and faculty to other countries to report and conduct training. All of these initiatives originate in a state-of-the-art building that is considered one of the best journalism education facilities in the nation. 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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Ray Artigue Susan Bitter Smith Kristin Bloomquist David Bodney Art Brooks Elizabeth Murphy Burns Christopher Callahan Paula Casey Tom Chauncey Araceli De Leon Michael Dee David Eichler Elvira Espinoza Kristin Gilger Derrick Hall Scott Harkey John Hatfield Anita Helt Brian Hogan Win Holden Rich Howe Gordon James Laura Jordan Susan Karis Linda Little Fran Mallace Michael Mallace Denise McManus John Misner Art Mobley Mary Morrison Ed Munson Jim Paluzzi Mi-Ai Parrish Tim Riester Jose Rodiles Mark Rodman Jason Rowley Ray Schey Alan Silverman Matt Silverman Robert Stieve Scott Sutherland Diane Veres Clancy Woods Roberto Yañez
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Walter Cronkite at “Cronkite Seminar” in Stauffer Hall in 1990
Walter Cronkite 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. CronkiteLuncheon-TableProgram.indd 8
Cronkite in Stauffer Hall in 2005
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. 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. 11/15/16 10:39 AM
Earlier this month, numerous students gathered at the school to honor Cronkite’s legacy on what would have been his 100th birthday. The birthday celebration also included a special daylong event at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., in September hosted by the Cronkite School, CBS News and the Newseum. Journalists such as Scott Pelley, Gwen Ifill, Bob Schieffer and Lesley Stahl shared their memories of Cronkite and discussed his significance to the profession while Cronkite alumni and faculty spoke about his impact on them and the school. Cronkite’s legacy lives on in the spirit and passion with which the school teaches both the skills to practice journalism in today’s media environment and the timehonored ethics and news values necessary to do it in the manner that would make him 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 career, visit
cronkite.asu.edu/cronkite-100
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Previous Cronkite Award Recipients 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. 2015 Charlie Rose 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 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 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
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#CronkiteAt100 On Nov. 4, 2016, more than 100 students gathered to celebrate what would have been Walter Cronkite’s 100th birthday. During the event, they shared how Cronkite’s legacy is impacting them today.
Because of Cronkite ... “I feel like I can conquer the world.” – Jessie Stone, senior “I can graduate in four years from one of the most innovative journalism schools in the country.” – Jacob Garcia, graduate student
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“I can write stories that give a voice to the voiceless and resonate with people everywhere.” – Kim Rapanut, freshman
“I showed my daughters that it’s never too late to invest in yourself.” – Sandy Balazic, alumna 2015
“I can study at one of the best journalism programs in the country.” – Sabine Galvis, freshman
“I’ve been able to experience journalism opportunities that some students/pros only dream of.” – Bryce Newberry, sophomore
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Celebrating Walter Cronkite’s Birthday
LIVE FROM WASHINGTON
CRONKITE DAY
AT THE NEWSEUM
Photos by Johanna Huckeba
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Walter Cronkite, the Cronkite School, CBS News and the Newseum hosted a public celebration featuring Cronkite School faculty and alumni as well as some of the nation’s top journalists in Washington, D.C., in September.
cronkite.asu.edu/content/cronkite-day-newseum
Top Right: Leonard Downie Jr., Bob Schieffer and Lesley Stahl; Bottom Right: Gwen Ifill and Scott Pelley; Bottom Left: Walter L. Cronkite IV
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thank
you
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Arizona State University
from all of us at the Cronkite School
Cronkite Circle
12 News / KPNX-TV ABC15 APS azcentral.com / The Arizona Republic Cox Communications / Cox Media Deeann Griebel KPHO CBS5 Morgan Murphy Media/Elizabeth and Richard Burns Ellie and Michael Ziegler*
President’s Circle
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Bonneville Phoenix CBS News Janice and Leonard Downie
Dean’s Circle
Arizona Broadcasters Association Arizona Cardinals Arizona Diamondbacks Arizona Highways Magazine Avnet Ballard Spahr Bushtex, Inc. CenturyLink Tom Chauncey - Gust Rosenfeld Clear Channel Outdoor FOX Sports Arizona Hardt and Associates iHeartMedia
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Your gift to the Cronkite School
represents an investment in the success
of our students today - and in the future.
We thank you for your generous support. KJZZ 91.5/Friends of Public Radio Arizona LaneTerralever Candace and Tim McGuire Owens Harkey Advertising R&R Partners Raza Development Fund Republic Services Sinclair Broadcast Group SONY Professional Solutions of Americas *Donation
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