To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Walter Cronkite, the Cronkite School, CBS News and the Newseum hosted a public celebration featuring some of the nation’s top journalists, Cronkite professors and alumni at the Newseum in September 2016.
Scott Pelley of CBS News was the 2016 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. Watch Pelley's powerful acceptance speech on the state of journalism.
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The Cronkite School is counting down the days to what would have been Walter Cronkite’s 100th birthday with a variety of photos, quotes and interesting facts about the anchor on Facebook and Twitter. Share your memories of Walter Cronkite using the hashtag #CronkiteAt100.
The Cronkite Centennial Club is an exclusive giving society created to celebrate what would have been Walter Cronkite’s 100th birthday and to help future journalists and aspiring communication professionals at the Cronkite School achieve their dreams.
The journalism program at ASU was named in honor of Walter Cronkite in 1984. Learn more about Walter Cronkite’s relationship with the university and how he helped create one of the nation’s premier professional journalism programs.
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Walter Cronkite died on July 17, 2009, but his legacy lives on in journalism and in the Cronkite School, where students learn time-honored ethics and news values with a spirit and passion that would make him proud.
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