Rebecca Blatt

Arizona State University - Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is widely recognized as one of the nation's premier professional journalism programs. Rooted in the time-honored values that characterize its namesake — accuracy, responsibility, objectivity, integrity — the school fosters journalistic excellence and ethics among students as they master the professional skills they need to succeed in the digital media world of today and tomorrow. 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 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 a testing ground for new approaches in journalism. Cronkite students participate in a dozen professional immersion programs, guided by award-winning journalists and communication experts. Students cover the most important issues of the day from public affairs news bureaus in Phoenix and Washington, D.C. They produce a nightly newscast that reaches 1.9 million households on Arizona PBS. They report on sports from multimedia bureaus in Los Angeles 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 New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab, they use digital technologies to forge the future of journalism. New immersion programs include the Reynolds Business Reporting Bureau ...