2019 fall Cronkite convocation program

Convocation Program Fall 2019

Processional

Welcome

Keynote Speaker

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Dean Christopher Callahan

Andrew Heyward, former president, CBS News, and senior research professor, Cronkite School

Dean Christopher Callahan

Senior Associate Dean Kristin Gilger

Associate Dean Mark Lodato Assistant Dean Rebecca Blatt

Special Awards

Outstanding Graduate Student Mikala Morris

Outstanding Undergraduate Students

Ricky Cornish Anya Magnuson

Top Innovator Hannah Franklin

Sophia Molinar Bryan Pietsch

Highest Undergraduate Grade Point Averages

Emily Taylor

• Journalism and Mass Communication and Sports Journalism Megan Marples

• Digital Audiences and Mass Communication and Media Studies Lisa Hicinbothem

Outstanding Graduate Online Student Dakota Hermes

Outstanding Undergraduate Online Student Miguel Romero Hernandez Kappa Tau Alpha National Honor Society Nisa Ayral Kyle Dowd Sarah Farrell BrieAnna Frank Taylor Freds

Sophia Molinar Mikala Morris Jaime Muldrew Harper Speagle-Price Emily Taylor Moeur Award

Nisa Ayral Kyle Dowd

Recessional

Platform Guests

Madeleine Goff Israel Gonzalez Jonathan LaFlamme Anya Magnuson Megan Marples

Madeleine Goff Megan Marples

Megan Marples

Jaime Muldrew Harper Speagle-Price

Elvira Espinoza Cronkite Endowment Board representative and chief communications officer, Raza Development Fund

Andrew Heyward Former president, CBS News, and senior research professor, Cronkite School

Al Macias Cronkite faculty associate of the year and news director, KJZZ-FM

Megan Marples Student speaker

Mary Mazur General manager, Arizona PBS

Lindsey Reiser Alumni representative and anchor/correspondent

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 timehonored 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 skills they need to succeed in the digital journalism world of today and tomorrow.

The Cronkite School’s 2,400 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 five Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 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

Andrew Heyward

Andrew Heyward, former president of CBS News, is a nationally known news executive, award-winning producer and expert on the changing media landscape. After a long career in broadcast news, mostly at CBS, he became an adviser to media companies, helping them develop innovative digital content, services and strategy.

Heyward directs the research arm of a unique three-part project at ASU to promote local TV news innovation by identifying best practices around the country, collaborating with stations to develop new strategies, and conducting experiments at the Cronkite School. The initiative is supported through a $1.9 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Heyward also serves as a visiting scholar for social machines at MIT, where he is working on artificial intelligence tools to strengthen local journalism.

In spring 2016, Heyward served as a visiting faculty member at the Cronkite

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. It 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 15 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, Los Angeles 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, Cronkite students produce a nightly newscast

School, where he created and taught an intensive workshop in advanced television news storytelling.

Heyward was president of CBS News from January 1996 through November 2005. He previously served as executive producer of “CBS Evening News” and in 1988 developed “48 Hours,” the primetime CBS News program. He began his career working in local news at WNEW-TV and WCBS-TV in New York.

Heyward graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University.

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 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 studentproduced TV news magazine that airs on Arizona PBS in prime time, spotlighting the innovative science research at ASU. And the school has created a Facebook-supported collaborative aimed at helping people find new ways of understanding and engaging with

Megan Marples

Megan Marples is graduating summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in tourism management.

This fall, Marples was a photographer and videographer at Cronkite News, where she worked primarily with the new health reporting team. The previous spring, she interned at Phoenix New Times as an arts and music reporter.

One of the highlights of her undergraduate career was interning at CNN in Atlanta, Georgia. She worked as a mobile programmer, helping program CNN’s homepage content while writing stories for the trending and travel teams.

Marples also is graduating from Barrett, The Honors College, where she completed her thesis, “Experience Ireland,” about Irish heritage tourism sites at goexperienceireland.com.

Earlier this semester, she received the Moeur Award from the ASU Alumni Association. The award is given each year

to students graduating with a 4.0 GPA who have completed all of their coursework at ASU. Marples plans to pursue a master’s degree in mass communication at the Cronkite School beginning this spring.

“What made my Cronkite School experience so unique was the guest speakers and renowned faculty that enriched my educational experience … I would not be where I am today without all those individuals guiding me along the way,” Marples said.

news and information. One of the newest professional programs is the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded Southwest Health Reporting Initiative to provide highquality news about health to audiences throughout the Southwest.

Most recently, Cronkite received a $3 million grant from the Scripps Howard Foundation to establish the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism that will train the next generation of investigative reporters.

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. Cronkite also is home to PBS NewsHour West and Indian Country Today, creating enhanced

coverage and added student opportunities.

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 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.

Master of Journalism and Mass Communication

Anikka Abbott

Megan Boyanton

Kailey Broussard Jade Carter Amy-Xiaoshi DePaola

Taylor Freds

Yael Grauer

Harrison Mantas Mikala Morris Katherine Nowicki

Master of Arts in Sports Journalism

Lynsey Amundson

Erica Block

David Dunn Owain Evans Sarah Farrell Claudia Faust Sean Kilday

Bradey King Corey Kirk

Jason Krell Christopher Lindsay Erica Morris McKenzie Pavacich Tanner Puckett

Master of Science in Business Journalism

Marggie Castellano

Rebecca Chrzanowski Vikki Leclaire

Joseph Maguire Kodichi Nwankwo Cierra Prosser

Master of Science in Digital Audience Strategy

Federika Cariati

Rebecca Chrzanowski

Jeffrey Garcia Robert Geshay Nicholas Grogg

Dakota Hermes Christian Jones

Thomas Lundeen Stephanie Mead Taylor Nen

Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication

Maria Amaya

Monique Artis

Nisa Ayral *** ^

James Barnitz

Martin Becerra

Raul Bencomo * ^

Danielle Beserra **

Lauren Bukoskey **

David Caltabiano

Justin Campbell *

Katherine Chase Cassiel Clark *** Addalai Clark

Ricky Cornish *** Sydney Cox Hana DeMent Kyle Dowd *** ^

Erin Dragoo ** Alexandra Edelmann Juan Escobedo

Adriana Falero * Joel Farias

Miranda Faulkner BrieAnna Frank *** ^ Jade Frazier

Veronica Galek ** ^ Mariah Gallegos

Cameron Galvin Kiya Gaskin

Madeleine Goff *** ^ Israel Gonzalez *** Andres Guerra-Luz * Kathryn Hart ** Julian Hernandez **

Timothy Royan Grayson Schmidt Olivia Steinfeld Reinert Toft Lindsay Walker

Scott Rowe Matthew Roy Alexander Simon Lamar Smith Kyla Wilcher

Ryan Rapier

Christopher Silver Gerrit Van Dyke Sydney Wallace Allyson Xiong

Chelsea Hofmann * Jason Hommes

Kevin Ixtabalan Nakiesha Johnson Claire Kelly Jonathan LaFlamme *** Bayley Ludviksen

Anya Magnuson *** Megan Marples *** ^ Elora Matiella ** Brianna McKissick ** Francis Mclister Hailey Mensik

Evan Millstein ** Sophia Molinar *** Lerman Montoya ^ Brianna Moore

Samantha Morales *

Dominic Moreno ***

Braeden Mueller

Jaime Muldrew *** ^ Ryan Muschkat

Francesca Olibarria-Gomez Maia Ordonez

Serena O’Sullivan ** Ali Phillips *

Bryan Pietsch *** ^ Katherine Pippin ^ Alexis Potter ** Celia Prince

Allison Ray Victor Ren Olivia Richard Kayla Satterfield Devan Sauer

Jessica Schram * Kyley Schultz Summer Sorg ** Emma Sounart ***

Harper Speagle-Price *** Rebecca Stallman * Madison Staten ** Emily Taylor *** ^

Bachelor of Arts in Sports Journalism

Ross Andrews **

Matthew Andujo Trey Bates

Jordan Taylor **

Kevin Thompson ** Annika Tomlin *

Christina Van Otterloo *** Caroline Veltman * Kyley Warren * Andrew Wei Manning Winn Quindrea Yazzie Joshua Zaklis Dominique Ziegler Sabina Zofcik ***

Evaristo Montoya

Maxwell Bechtoldt *

Maxwell Bechtoldt * Jeremy Beren * Anthony Bertran

Natalie Braun Sophia Briseno Cydeni Carter

Natalie Braun Sophia Briseno Cydeni Carter

Lauren Chiangpradit ***

Tyler Dare

Lauren Chiangpradit *** Tyler Dare Sebastian Emanuel Hannah Franklin **

Nicholas Canduci

Christina Diaz Heather Hlouschko Samantha Kurdas *

Robert Kraus

Caitlyn Lemle Kynan Marlin ***

Grace Fuerte Blake Harris Tyler Henry Karrissa Herrera ** Jacquelynn Huff ** Vaughn Johnson Hailey Koebrick Robert Kraus Caitlyn Lemle Kynan Marlin *** Kaleb Martinez ** Kendall Meisner John Mendoza

Bachelor of Science in Digital Audiences

Andujo Taylor Rasnic ***

Gabriel Moreno * Dustin Pare Serina Perez Stephen Perez Tyler Rittenhouse Gabrielle Rivas Ryan Sharp * Andre Simms William Tyrrell Kennedy Wilkerson * Anthony Ziola

Audiences

Logan Long ***

Logan Long *** Amanda O’Halloran Taylor Rasnic *** Laura Sollenberger ***

Mattie Swanson James Waite

Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication and Media Studies

Lisa Adams-Williams

Alexia Audet

Sebastian Emanuel Bachelor of Heather Hlouschko Lisa Adams-Williams Alexia Audet

Caitlyn Baker Annalie Basanta

Michael Cordiano

Marco Flores

Stephanieann Basto

Alyssa Boulier

Basto

Brenna Brodbeck Brenda Cai

Raul Camino Jara *

Stephanie Cammiso Megan Cannady Jordan Canseco

Jonathan Carrigan

Caitlin Carter David Chaney *** John Changaris

Samantha Coughlin Stephanie Couto Lena Cowsert * Ashley Crawford Kiley Cuellar Michael Darnell Adrian Diaz Cara Dimkich Hannah Dorkin Tori Dumas Donald Elder Kimberly Fellman Nicolas Ferrara Micaela Fischer *** Giovanni Flores ***

Emmarose Garrett Ashley Gogerty Courtney Greco Vanessa Green *** Emily Hall * Ronald Hamilton Kirsten Harrell Carly Hataway Claire Haupt Marianna Henson Amy Herrera Alycia Hester

Lisa Hicinbothem *** James Hill Mary Hoeffel *

Rachel Husmann

Abagail Hutzler

Pamela Jarufe

Darieal Johnson

Carlisa Johnson

Caroline Johnson

Kaely Kautz

Brienne Kiehl

Thomas Kilgoar

Tanner Koch

Holly Kohl **

Erica Kriegl

Rebeka Lafont *

Christopher Lange

Michael Lennox

Zachary Lopez ***

Michael Loreno

Darren Mackenzie

Mark Malerich

Alexander Martinez

Jessica McCormick

Eric Mccrory

Anthony Mclaughlin

Austin McMinn

Flor Mejia Paez

Jairo Melgarejo

Kristen Mendoza

Christian Mijangos ** Shain-Camryn Miles ** Jacob Montplaisir ***

Patricia Moore ***

Ciara Morgan

Arlo Murguia

Kenneth Nabours ***

Matthew Najera ***

Evan Nelson

Jazzlyn Newsome

Gabriel Ondrejko ***

Kelly Oswald

Madison Owen Rebecca Pacton Nicholas Parker *

Kelsie Perry

Caitlin Pierson

Julie Pilat

Dominique Pishotti

Julianne Pyle

Sophia Quijas

Sierra Reinert

Jason Robertson ** Miguel Romero Hernandez Alexandra Russom

Richard Sams

Scout Sanders Ivonne Sandoval Janet Sauter

Kerry Schofield Kionna Scott Michael Serrano *** Drew Simmons Samantha Smith **

The Cronkite School has about 14,000 alumni throughout the Valley, across the country and around the world. Many are leaders in television, digital media, newspapers, radio, magazines and public relations.

In 1993, the Cronkite School inducted its first class into the Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame. The charter inductees were Al Michaels (’66), an Emmy Award-winning sports broadcaster best known for anchoring “Monday Night Football,” and Bill Redeker (’71), an ABC News correspondent who covered the Middle East and the Far East during his 30 years with the network.

James Smith **

Mason Smith

Jacquelyn Stanfield

Dean Steed ***

Frank Strumila

Arryana Tate

Nicole Torres

Erin Tremel

Kylee Truoccolo ***

Christian Turbeville

Alycen Urban Jacob Vandenberg

Zachary Vinson

Clara Walker

Alexis Washburn-Jasinski

Daniel Wheeler

Erin Whitten

Prince Will Ryan Wintle

Austin Wonders Aliyah Yearwood

Honors designations

Academic recognition is granted to undergraduate candidates only:

* Cum Laude – GPA of 3.40 to 3.59

** Magna Cum Laude – GPA of 3.60 to 3.79

*** Summa Cum Laude – GPA of 3.80 and above

^ Graduate of Barrett, The Honors College

Other notable Cronkite Alumni Hall of Fame inductees include Nicole Carroll (’91), editor-in-chief of USA Today; Becky Anderson (’94), CNN International anchor; Julie Cart (’98), Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times reporter; Derrick Hall (’91), president of the Arizona Diamondbacks; Christine Devine (’87), news anchor at FOX 11 in Los Angeles; Mary Kim Titla (’85), founder of Native Youth Magazine; Ray Artigue (’76), president of The Artigue Agency; and Chip Dean (’77), director of ESPN’s “Monday Night Football.”

Stay connected to fellow #CronkiteNation alumni on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Cronkite Endowment Board of Trustees

Executive Committee

Anita Helt, president

Vice president and general manager, ABC15 / KNXV-TV and CW61Arizona

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

Christine Dotts, co-chair, Luncheon Committee

Senior vice president, Brodeur Partners

Win Holden, chair, Assessment

Former publisher, Arizona Highways Magazine

Fran Mallace, co-chair, Luncheon Committee

Group vice president, Cox Communications/Cox Media

Diane Veres, chair, Mentoring

President and general manager, Clear Channel Outdoor

Board Members

Ray Artigue, chief advisor, Artigue Advisors

Richard Barone, vice president, Cox Media Arizona

Elizabeth Murphy Burns, president and chief executive officer, Morgan Murphy Media

Greg Burton, executive editor, The Arizona Republic

Ahron Cohen, president and CEO, Arizona Coyotes

Andrew Deschapelles, president and general manager, Telemundo Arizona

Dean Ditmer, president and general manager, 12 News / KPNX-TV

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, founder and managing partner, OH Partners

Brian Hogan, senior vice president and general manager, FOX Sports Arizona

Gordon James, owner, Gordon C. James Public Relations

Kevin James, vice president/general manager, CBS5 / KPHO-TV and 3TV / KTVK-TV

Susan Karis, vice president sales, Hubbard Radio Phoenix

Chris Kline, president and CEO, Arizona Broadcasters Association

Beau Lane, founder and CEO, LaneTerralever Linda Little, president, Arizona Region, iHeartMedia

Lynn Londen, CEO, AZTV Channel 7

Michael Mallace, radio professional Mary Mazur, general manager, Arizona PBS

Rob Merritt, vice president of communications, BIG YAM

Mary Morrison, Mary M Media

Tim Riester, president and CEO, RIESTER

Mark Rodman, vice president and general manager, Fox 10 / KSAZ-TV

Ray Schey, publisher, Phoenix Business Journal

John Schurz, president and general manager, Orbitel Communications

Susan Bitter Smith, executive director, Southwest Cable Communications Association

Robert Stieve, editor, Arizona Highways Magazine

Scott Sutherland, vice president and market manager, Bonneville Media

Peter Witty, senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, Cable One

Clancy Woods, president, D Mobile

Cronkite School Faculty

Craig M. Allen Ph.D., Ohio University

Melanie Asp Alvarez

M.L.S., Arizona State University

Douglas A. Anderson Ph.D., Southern Illinois University

Pauline Arrillaga B.A., University of North Texas

Sadie Babits B.A., Boise State University

Marianne Barrett Ph.D., Michigan State University

Maud Beelman M.A.J.C., University of Florida

Rebecca Blatt

M.B.A., American University

Paola Boivin B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Luis Bonilla B.A., Brigham Young University

Sharon Bramlett-Solomon Ph.D., Indiana University

Christy Bricks M.A., Arizona State University

Peter Byck B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts

Christopher Callahan M.P.A., Harvard University

Michael Casavantes Ph.D., Arizona State University

Monica Chadha Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Julio Cisneros B.A., Universidad San Carlos

Sarah Cohen

M.A., University of Maryland

John E. Craft Ph.D., Ohio University

Steve Crane M.B.A., University of Maryland

Steve Doig B.A., Dartmouth College

Leonard Downie Jr. M.A., The Ohio State University

Heather Lovett Dunn B.A., University of Mississippi

Herm Edwards B.S., San Diego State University

Valeria Fernández B.A., Arizona State University

Steve Filmer

B.S., Boston University

Kristin Gilger

M.A., University of Nebraska Dan Gillmor

B.A., University of Vermont Dawn Gilpin Ph.D., Temple University Mark Hass B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo

Venita Hawthorne James B.A., Lincoln University Andrew Heyward B.A., Harvard University Retha Hill

M.A., Arizona State University Syed Ali Hussain Ph.D., Michigan State University Jim Jacoby

M.A.S., Arizona State University Kathy Kudravi B.S., Kent University Brett Kurland

M.B.A., Northwestern University K. Hazel Kwon Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo

Andrew Leckey M.A., University of Missouri Christina Leonard B.A., University of Oklahoma Susan Lisovicz

B.A., William Paterson University Mark Lodato

M.Ed., Arizona State University Andrés Martinez

J.D., Columbia University Fran R. Matera Ph.D., University of Miami John Misner

B.L.S., Arizona State University Shaya Tayefe Mohajer M.A., New York University Lauren Mucciolo

M.A., City University of New York Frank Mungeam M.A., Gonzaga University Jacob Nelson

Ph.D., Northwestern University Eric Newton M.A., University of Birmingham

Mi-Ai Parrish

B.S., University of Maryland

Jacquee Petchel

B.A., Arizona State University

Jessica Pucci

M.A., University of Missouri

Mark Reda

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

Sada J. Reed Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Walter V. Robinson B.A., Northeastern University

Rick Rodriguez B.A., Stanford University

Vanessa Ruiz B.S., Florida International University

Dennis E. Russell Ph.D., University of Utah

Joseph Russomanno Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder

Fernanda Santos M.S., Boston University

Walter Cronkite

ASU’s journalism program 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 a leading supporter of journalism education at ASU, contacted his 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

Lisa Schmidtke

B.A., Arizona State University

Kenneth L. Shropshire J.D., Columbia University

B. William Silcock

Ph.D., University of Missouri

Leslie-Jean Thornton Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Lori Todd B.S., University of Miami

Julia Wallace B.S., Northwestern University

Maureen West M.Np.S., Arizona State University

Xu Wu Ph.D., University of Florida

Affiliated Cronkite Faculty

Steven Beschloss M.S.J., Northwestern University

Torie Bosch

B.A., Penn State University

Michael Cruz Gregg P. Leslie

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.

In what turned out to be Cronkite’s last visit to ASU in 2007 before declining health prevented him from traveling, a group of 100 students gathered with just a few minutes of notice that Cronkite was in the building. He held them spellbound as he spoke about covering World War II,

J.D., Georgetown University

Jason Manning

M.A., George Mason University

Terry Greene Sterling M.F.A., Goucher College

Faculty Emeriti

Troy F. Crowder (In Memoriam) M.A., University of Iowa

Robert Ellis

M.A., Case Western Reserve University

Mary-Lou Galician Ed.D., Memphis State University

Donald G. Godfrey Ph.D., University of Washington

Roy K. Halverson Ph.D., University of Illinois

Frederic “Fritz” Leigh Ed.D., Arizona State University

Tim McGuire J.D., William Mitchell College of Law

George Watson Ph.D., Duke University

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 new building, he remains an ever-present part of the school’s heartbeat and direction.

Cronkite’s 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 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 legacy and career, visit cronkite.asu.edu/ rememberingcronkite.