Walter Cronkite Award for in Journalism
Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 Sheraton Grand Phoenix
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Walter Cronkite Award for in Journalism Introductory Remarks Christopher Callahan Dean, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and University Vice Provost, Downtown Phoenix Campus Thanking Our Supporters Anita Helt Vice President and General Manager, ABC15/KNXV-TV President, Cronkite Endowment Board Introduction of Anderson Cooper Gabriella Bachara Cronkite student Presentation of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Dr. Mark S. Searle Executive Vice President and University Provost, Arizona State University Remarks by Honoree Anderson Cooper
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Anderson Cooper Anderson Cooper is the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning prime-time anchor of CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” a newscast that goes beyond the headlines with in-depth reporting and investigations. Cooper, also a correspondent for “60 Minutes” on CBS, has reported live from more than 40 countries since his journalism career began in 1992. He has earned a reputation as one of television’s leading journalists. His coverage at CNN has included on-the-ground reporting of major news stories. He won two Emmy Awards for his reporting on the Haiti earthquake in 2011. He also helped lead CNN’s Peabody Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. And in 2004, he worked on prime-time specials on the Indian Ocean tsunami, which won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. As a regular contributor to “60 Minutes” since 2006, he has reported on Congo’s civil war in 2008 as well as the dire conditions of coral reefs near Cuba in 2011, which won an Edward R. Murrow Award. Cooper joined CNN shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks and plays a key role in the network’s political and election coverage, anchoring from the national political conventions and serving as moderator during several presidential primary debates and town halls. In 2016, Cooper was selected by the Committee on Presidential Debates to co-moderate one of three debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Since the launch of “Anderson Cooper 360” in 2005, Cooper has covered presidential inaugurations, the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting, Republican and Democratic National Conventions and uprisings in the Middle East. He traveled around the world in 2007 and 2008 for “Planet in Peril,” a documentary about issues threatening the planet. Previously Cooper was an ABC News correspondent from 1995-2000, serving as anchor of ABC’s overnight newscast, “World News Now.” He also was a correspondent for “World News Tonight” as well as “20/20.” He joined ABC from Channel One News, a school television network seen daily in more than 12,000 classrooms nationwide. Cooper graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He also studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi.
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Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication The Cronkite School is widely recognized as one of the nation’s premier professional journalism programs. Rooted in the time-honored values of accuracy, responsibility, objectivity and 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 2,000 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. Cronkite students annually win more than 100 journalism and public relations awards. Students are guided by a faculty that is made up of award-winning professional journalists, strategic communications executives and world-class media scholars. 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
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scholars who often speak around the globe on the most important topics facing journalism today. The Cronkite School leads 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 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 new approaches in journalism. Cronkite students choose from more than a dozen professional immersion programs, applying what they have learned in the classroom in real-world learning environments. Students cover public affairs from news bureaus in Phoenix and Washington, and they cover sports from bureaus in Phoenix and Los Angeles. Carnegie-Knight News21 multimedia journalists conduct national data-driven investigations. For Arizona PBS, they produce a nightly newscast that reaches 1.9 million households as well as a robust multimedia news website. In Cronkite Noticias, bilingual students produce Spanish-language broadcast and digital stories on important issues. Students in the Public Relations Lab develop
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Walter Cronkite campaigns for client companies, while Digital Audiences Lab students harness social media, SEO and analytics to grow and engage audiences for clients. In the New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab, they use digital technologies to forge the future of journalism. The Cronkite School also has a student-produced TV news magazine airing on Arizona PBS in prime time that spotlights the innovative research at ASU. And the school has created a Facebook-supported collaborative aimed at helping people find new ways of understanding and engaging with news and information. Most recently, Cronkite received a $3 million grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation to establish a center that will train the next generation of reporters in investigative journalism. 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 unequaled 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 have 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. 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 everpresent 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.
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Thank You for Your Support Thank you to our 2018 Cronkite Luncheon table sponsors. Your gift represents an investment in the success of our students and in the future of journalism.
Cronkite Circle $10,000
12 News / KPNX-TV ABC15 APS The Arizona Republic / azcentral Cox Communications Deeann Jo Griebel Morgan Murphy Media / Elizabeth and Richard Burns Ellie and Michael Ziegler
President’s Circle $6,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Bonneville Media Phoenix Len and Janice Downie Fox Sports Arizona Raza Development Fund Betty and John Whiteman
Dean’s Circle $3,500
ABC15 Arizona Broadcasters Association Arizona Diamondbacks Arizona Highways Magazine Arizona’s Family 3TV & CBS5 (2) ASU – Office of Government & Community Engagement ASU – Office of Knowledge and Enterprise Development Ballard Spahr LLP BIG YAM Brodeur Partners Bushtex, Inc.
Tom Callinan Tom Chauncey (2) Clear Channel Outdoor Hardt and Associates iHeartMedia The Jordan Group / Artigue Advisors LaneTerralever Ann O’Connor OH Partners RIESTER
Tables listed as of October 2, 2018
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Endowment Board of Trustees
Executive Committee Anita Helt, President Vice president and general manager, ABC15/KNXV-TV David Bodney, past president Partner, Ballard Spahr LLP Christopher Callahan Dean, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication Tom Chauncey, chair, Nominations Committee Attorney, Gust Rosenfeld John Hatfield, chair, Development Committee Vice president of communications, APS Win Holden, chair, Assessment Publisher, Arizona Highways Magazine Fran Mallace, chair, Luncheon Committee Vice president, Cox Media Diane Veres, chair, Mentoring President and general manager, Clear Channel Outdoor Board Members Ray Artigue, chief advisor, Artigue Advisors Art Brooks, president and CEO, Arizona Broadcasters Association Elizabeth Murphy Burns, president and CEO, Morgan Murphy Media Greg Burton, executive editor, The Arizona Republic Paula Casey, executive director, Arizona Newspapers Association Andrew Deschapelles, president and general manager, Telemundo Arizona Dean Ditmer, president and general manager, 12 News David Eichler, founder and creative director, Decibel Blue Creative Marketing and PR Elvira Espinoza, chief communications officer, Raza Development Fund Kristin Gilger, senior associate dean, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication Derrick Hall, president and CEO, Arizona Diamondbacks Scott Harkey, president, OH Partners Brian Hogan, senior vice president and general manager, FOX Sports Arizona Gordon James, owner, Gordon C. James Public Relations Laura Jordan, director of benefactor relations, St. Francis Xavier Catholic Faith Community Susan Karis, vice president sales, Hubbard Radio Phoenix Beau Lane, CEO, LaneTerralever Linda Little, president, Arizona Region, iHeartMedia Lynn Londen, CEO, Londen Media Group Michael Mallace, general manager, Sierra H Broadcasting Mary Mazur, general manager, Arizona PBS Mary Morrison, Mary M Media Tim Riester, president and CEO, RIESTER Mark Rodman, vice president and general manager, Fox 10 / KSAZ-TV, Phoenix Ray Schey, publisher, Phoenix Business Journal Matt Silverman, principal, PulsePoint Group Susan Bitter Smith, executive director, Southwest Cable Communications Association Curtis Steinhoff, vice president of communications, BIG YAM Robert Stieve, editor, Arizona Highways Magazine Scott Sutherland, vice president and market manager, Bonneville Media Traci Wilkinson, vice president and general manager, KASW-TV Your Phoenix CW Peter Witty, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, Cable One Clancy Woods, president, D Mobile
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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. 2017 Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill 2016 Scott Pelley 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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TOGETHER, OUR POTENTIAL IS LIMITLESS
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