The Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism is an annual award presented by Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The recipient is deemed to represent a leading figure in the journalism industry, especially for ground-breaking achievements which have advanced the industry as a whole. The first award was presented by legendary journalist Walter Cronkite himself in 1984.
The award-winning foreign correspondent and anchor of ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour" joins the ranks of past award recipients including news anchors Diane Sawyer...
The two women are the third pair of co-recipients of the Cronkite Award. Others include "NewsHour" anchors Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, who won the award in 2008, and CBS founder William Paley and former CBS President Frank Stanton, who were the first Cronkite award winners in 1984.
He will join the other 29 recipients, including Brian Williams, Diane Sawyer, Tom Brokaw and Bob Woodward.
The last CBS News member to receive the Cronkite Award was Charles Osgood in 2004.
Although the list of 21 recipients is a "who's who" in journalism, only three women have ever received the award, the most recent National Public Radio senior news analyst Cokie Roberts in 2000.
Past recipients have included Bob Costas, Christiane Amanpour, Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, Katharine Graham, Bob Woodward, Helen Thomas, Ben Bradlee and George Will.
Previous winners of the prestigious award include Tom Brokaw, Ted Turner, Bob Woodward, Bill Moyers, Katharine Graham, Allen Neuharth, Don Hewitt, Helen Thomas, George Will, Ben Bradlee, Bernard Shaw and Roone Arledge.
The Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism is an annual award presented by Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The recipient is deemed to represent a leading figure in the journalism industry, especially for ground-breaking achievements which have advanced the industry as a whole. The first award was presented by legendary journalist Walter Cronkite himself in 1984.
The award-winning foreign correspondent and anchor of ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour" joins the ranks of past award recipients including news anchors Diane Sawyer...
The two women are the third pair of co-recipients of the Cronkite Award. Others include "NewsHour" anchors Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, who won the award in 2008, and CBS founder William Paley and former CBS President Frank Stanton, who were the first Cronkite award winners in 1984.
He will join the other 29 recipients, including Brian Williams, Diane Sawyer, Tom Brokaw and Bob Woodward.
The last CBS News member to receive the Cronkite Award was Charles Osgood in 2004.
Although the list of 21 recipients is a "who's who" in journalism, only three women have ever received the award, the most recent National Public Radio senior news analyst Cokie Roberts in 2000.
Past recipients have included Bob Costas, Christiane Amanpour, Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, Katharine Graham, Bob Woodward, Helen Thomas, Ben Bradlee and George Will.
Previous winners of the prestigious award include Tom Brokaw, Ted Turner, Bob Woodward, Bill Moyers, Katharine Graham, Allen Neuharth, Don Hewitt, Helen Thomas, George Will, Ben Bradlee, Bernard Shaw and Roone Arledge.