NBC newsman Brian Williams received the annual Walter Cronkite Award for his work in journalism on Wednesday.

The Stardust Foundation is awarding a $510,000 grant to the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University to fund high school journalism programs.

The death of legendary CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite on Friday hit close to home for students and professors at Arizona State University's journalism school, which was named in honor of "the most trusted man in America."

Award-winning journalist Christiane Amanpour on Thursday called journalism worldwide a "sacred endeavor" as she accepted the 2011 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism at Arizona State University.

Mark Scarp: Walter Cronkite’s name put Arizona State University’s journalism school on the media map. Since Cronkite became the “face” of ASU journalism in 1984, the school began a quarter-century of improvement and expansion of its curriculum, the addition of top-flight faculty and in 2008, a new six-story building in downtown Phoenix, as well as growing amounts of private philanthropic support.

NEW YORK — U.S. veteran newsman Walter Cronkite, who was the face of CBS television news for more that two decades, is reported to be gravely ill.

Mark Scarp: Walter Cronkite’s name put Arizona State University’s journalism school on the media map. Since Cronkite became the “face” of ASU journalism in 1984, the school began a quarter-century of improvement and expansion of its curriculum, the addition of top-flight faculty and in 2008, a new six-story building in downtown Phoenix, as well as growing amounts of private philanthropic support.

Walter Cronkite, the premier TV anchorman of the networks' golden age who reported a tumultuous time with reassuring authority and came to be called "the most trusted man in America," has died. He was 92.

Two old war reporters made it plain Thursday they think America is botching the war in Iraq.

Tom Brokaw, one of the nation’s most celebrated television journalists, received Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism during a ceremony Tuesday.

Today the new Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication officially opened for classes in downtown Phoenix.

Gangplank, the collaborate workplace founded in downtown Chandler, will open a popup workspace this summer at Arizona State University’s downtown Phoenix campus. Gangplank will operate the space from early June to mid-August within the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

After months of discussion, Arizona State University officials on Wednesday chose Chris Callahan to be founding dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

For years, the only thing high-profile about ASU's School of Journalism and Mass Communication was its namesake: Walter Cronkite. No longer.

Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication received a unanimous vote Sunday in Chicago recommending the school be awarded full accreditation.

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