Editing Walter Cronkite (section)

== Legacy ==
=== Public credibility and trustworthiness ===
For many years, until a decade after he left his post as anchor,<ref name="usa July 17, 2009">{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2009-07-17-cronkite-appreciation_N.htm|title=Cronkite's passing: A death in everyone's family|last=Bianco|first=Robert|date=July 17, 2009|work=USA Today|access-date=July 18, 2009}}</ref> Cronkite was considered one of the most [[trusted]] figures in the United States. For most of his 19 years as anchor, he was the "predominant news voice in America."<ref name="usa July 17, 2009" /> Affectionately known as "Uncle Walter", he covered many of the important news events of the era so effectively that his image and voice are closely associated with the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]], the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassination of President John F. Kennedy]], the [[Vietnam War]], the [[Apollo 11]] [[Moon]] landing, and the [[Watergate scandal]].<ref name="Barron" /><ref name="Ryan" /> ''[[USA Today]]'' wrote that "few TV figures have ever had as much power as Cronkite did at his height."<ref name="usa July 17, 2009" /> Enjoying the cult of personality surrounding Cronkite in those years, CBS allowed some good-natured fun-poking at its star anchorman in some episodes of the network's popular situation comedy ''[[All in the Family]]'', during which the lead character [[Archie Bunker]] would sometimes complain about the newsman, calling him "Pinko Cronkite."

Cronkite trained himself to speak at a rate of 124 words per minute in his newscasts so that viewers could clearly understand him.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hinckley |first=David |date=July 18, 2009 |title=Walter Cronkite remains gold standard for journalists |work=New York Daily News |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/07/18/2009-07-18_he_remains_the_gold_standard_among_all.html |url-status=dead |access-date=July 18, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528025746/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/walter-cronkite-remains-gold-standard-journalists-article-1.402930 |archive-date=May 28, 2016}}</ref> In contrast, Americans average about 165 [[words per minute]], and fast, difficult-to-understand talkers speak close to 200 words per minute.<ref>Statement from audiologist Ray Hull, PhD, ray.hull@wichita.edu, quoted in "Home Make-Over: How to design an efficient listening environment" by Alyssa Banotai, ADVANCE For Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (April 16, 2007), p. 8.</ref>

=== Awards and honors ===
[[File:Walter Cronkite (8157767811).jpg|thumb|Cronkite hosting the 61st Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon in May 2002]]
In 1968, the faculty of the [[E. W. Scripps School of Journalism]] at [[Ohio University]] voted to award Cronkite the [[Carr Van Anda]] Award "for enduring contributions to journalism."<ref>[http://scrippsjschool.org/about/historyofschool.php E.W. Scripps School of Journalism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725062232/http://scrippsjschool.org/about/historyofschool.php |date=July 25, 2009 }}.</ref> In 1970, Cronkite received a "Freedom of the Press" [[George Polk Award]]<ref name="Barron" /><ref name="KTVN Channel 2" /> and the [[Paul White (journalist)|Paul White]] Award from the [[Radio Television Digital News Association]].<ref name="RTDNA">{{cite web |url=http://www.rtdna.org/content/paul_white_award#.U4FBHS8-Ngc |title=Paul White Award |publisher=[[Radio Television Digital News Association]] |access-date=May 27, 2014 |archive-date=February 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130225052416/http://rtdna.org/content/paul_white_award#.U4FBHS8-Ngc |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1972, in recognition of his career, [[Princeton University]]'s [[American Whig-Cliosophic Society]] awarded Cronkite the [[James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service]].<ref>[http://archives-trim.un.org/webdrawer/rec/552938/view/Item-in-KAA%20Schoolsuniversities%202002%20-%20oct.%20-%20dec..PDF 2002 Letter to Kofi Annan] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121226142153/http://archives-trim.un.org/webdrawer/rec/552938/view/Item-in-KAA%20Schoolsuniversities%202002%20-%20oct.%20-%20dec..PDF |date=December 26, 2012 }}</ref>
[[File:Walter Cronkite Wash D.C. 1996.jpg|thumb|Cronkite in 1996]]
In 1977, Cronkite was elected to membership in the [[American Antiquarian Society]], for which he was a proactive supporter and member, even participating in educational video materials for the society's 175th anniversary.<ref name="Portrait with Walter Cronkite">{{cite web |title=Portrait with Walter Cronkite |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXBZ8pMvvzo |website=YouTube | date=July 19, 2010 |access-date=22 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="American Antiquarian Society Member list">{{cite web |title=Member List |url=https://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistc |website=American Antiquarian Society |access-date=22 October 2022}}</ref> In 1981, the year he retired, former president [[Jimmy Carter]] awarded Cronkite the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]].<ref name="Barron" /><ref name="KTVN Channel 2" /> In that year, he also received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by [[Jefferson Awards for Public Service|Jefferson Awards]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national|title=National – Jefferson Awards Foundation|work=jeffersonawards.org|access-date=August 5, 2013|archive-date=November 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124043935/http://jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national|url-status=dead}}</ref> and the Paul White Award for lifetime achievement from the [[Radio Television Digital News Association]].<ref name="RTDNA" /> In 1985, Cronkite was honored with the induction into the [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|Academy of Television Arts and Sciences]] Hall of Fame.<ref name="KTVN Channel 2" /> In 1989 he received the Four Freedoms Award for the Freedom of Speech.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/four-freedoms-awards |title=Four Freedom Awards |publisher=Roosevelt Institute |access-date=April 4, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150325223647/http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/four-freedoms-awards |archive-date=March 25, 2015 }}</ref> He was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Walter+Cronkite&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2022-01-10|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> In 1995, he received the [[Ischia International Journalism Award]].<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.premioischia.it/Albo-d-oro?lang=en |title= Premio Ischia Roll of Honour |access-date= May 9, 2011 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100705143108/http://www.premioischia.it/Albo-d-oro?lang=en |archive-date= July 5, 2010 |df= mdy-all }}</ref> In 1999, Cronkite received the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement's Corona Award in recognition of a lifetime of achievement in space exploration.<ref name="RNASA">{{cite web |url= http://rnasa.org/1999files/corona1999.html |title=1999 Corona Award Recipient |first=Marianne |last=Dyson |date=March 12, 1999 |access-date=April 19, 2011}}</ref> He was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2003.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web |title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter C |url= http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterC.pdf |publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences |access-date=April 22, 2011}}</ref> On March 1, 2006, Cronkite became the first non-astronaut to receive [[NASA]]'s Ambassador of Exploration Award.<ref name="NASA"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Newsman Walter Cronkite to be honored by NASA for his coverage of America's space program |work=The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History |publisher=University of Texas at Austin |year=2008 |url=http://www.cah.utexas.edu/news/press_release.php?press=presscronkpr |access-date=July 17, 2009 |archive-date=July 25, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725110801/http://www.cah.utexas.edu/news/press_release.php?press=presscronkpr |url-status=dead }}</ref> Among Cronkite's numerous awards were four [[Peabody Award|Peabody awards]] for excellence in broadcasting.<ref name="KTVN Channel 2" />

In 2003, Cronkite was honored by the [[Vienna Philharmonic]] with the [[Franz Schalk Gold Medal]], in view of his contributions to the New Year's Concert and the cultural image of [[Austria]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/orchestra/philharmonic-journal/year/2004/blogitemid/795/cid/4 |title=Philharmonic Journal : Walter Cronkite awarded the Franz Schalk Medal in Gold |work=Wiener Philharmoniker |access-date=July 9, 2013 |archive-date=April 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428012948/http://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/orchestra/philharmonic-journal/year/2004/blogitemid/795/cid/4 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Minor planet [[6318 Cronkite]], discovered in 1990 by [[Eleanor Helin]], is named in his honor.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=6318 |title=(6318) Cronkite = 1990 WA |access-date=December 4, 2020|publisher=Minor planet center}}</ref>

There is a street named after Cronkite in [[San Antonio|San Antonio, Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Merrisa |date=September 30, 2014 |title=San Antonio street names and groupings |url=https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/slideshow/San-Antonio-street-names-and-groupings-94695.php |website=mysanantonio.com}}</ref>

=== Cronkite School at Arizona State University ===
A few years after Cronkite retired, Tom Chauncey, a former owner of [[KSAZ-TV|KOOL-TV]], the then-CBS affiliate in [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]], contacted Cronkite, an old friend, and asked him if he would be willing to have the journalism school at [[Arizona State University]] named after him. Cronkite immediately agreed.<ref name="Philly" /><ref name="ASU" /> The ASU program acquired status and respect from its namesake.

Cronkite was not just a namesake, but he also took the time to interact with the students and staff of the [[Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication]].<ref name="Barron" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication|work=Walter Cronkite Biography|publisher=ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication|url=http://cronkite.asu.edu/walter/waltercronkite.php|access-date=July 17, 2009|archive-date=June 8, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090608140156/http://cronkite.asu.edu/walter/waltercronkite.php|url-status=dead}}</ref> He made the trip to Arizona annually to present the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism to a leader in the field of media.

"The values that Mr. Cronkite embodies – excellence, integrity, accuracy, fairness, objectivity – we try to instill in our students each and every day. There is no better role model for our faculty or our students," said Dean Christopher Callahan.<ref name="ASU">{{cite web |title=Walter Cronkite and ASU |date=January 29, 2009 |publisher=The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication |url= http://cronkite.asu.edu/walter/index.php |access-date=July 18, 2009}}</ref>

The school, with approximately 1,700 students, is widely regarded as one of the top journalism schools in the country. It is housed in a new facility in downtown Phoenix that is equipped with 14 digital newsrooms and computer labs, two TV studios, 280 digital student workstations, the Cronkite Theater, the First Amendment Forum, and new technology. The school's students regularly finish at the top of national collegiate journalism competitions, such as the Hearst Journalism Awards program and the [[Society of Professional Journalists]] Mark of Excellence Awards. In 2009, students won the [[Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award]] for college print reporting.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

In 2008, the state-of-the-art journalism education complex in the heart of [[Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix campus|ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus]] was also built in his honor. The Walter Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication seats the Texas College of Communications dean.<ref name="Barron" />

=== Walter Cronkite Papers ===
[[File:ASU Downtown - SoJ SWC - 2008-12-29.jpg|thumb|The namesake [[Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication]] at [[Arizona State University]] in Phoenix.]]
The Walter Cronkite papers are preserved at the curatorial [[Dolph Briscoe Center for American History]] at the [[University of Texas at Austin]].<ref name="Barron">{{cite web |last=Barron |first=David |title=News icon Walter Cronkite dies at 92|work=Houston Chronicle|date=July 17, 2009|url=https://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/deaths/6535009.html|access-date=July 17, 2009}}</ref> Occupying 293 linear feet (almost 90 metres) of shelf space, the papers document Cronkite's journalism career. Amongst the collected material are Cronkite's early beginnings while he still lived in Houston. They encompass his coverage of [[World War II]] as a [[United Press International]] correspondent, where he cemented his reputation by taking on hazardous overseas assignments.<ref name="Philly" /> During this time he also covered the [[Nuremberg trials|Nuremberg war crimes trial]] serving as the chief of the United Press bureau in Moscow. The main content of the papers documents Cronkite's career with CBS News between 1950 and 1981.

The Cronkite Papers include a variety of interviews with U.S. presidents, including [[Herbert Hoover]], [[Harry Truman]], and [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref name="Barron" /> 

{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?81241-1/a-reporters-life ''Booknotes'' interview with Cronkite on ''A Reporter's Life'', June 29, 1997], [[C-SPAN]]}}
Cronkite was helped in compiling the materials for his autobiography by Don Carleton, executive director for the Center for American History in the early 1990s,<ref name="dbcah">[http://www.cah.utexas.edu/news/press_release.php?press=press_cronkite_memoriam "In Memoriam: Walter Cronkite, 1916–2009"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100606135514/http://www.cah.utexas.edu/news/press_release.php?press=press_cronkite_memoriam |date=June 6, 2010 }}, Center for American History. Retrieved July 31, 2009.</ref> which was published as ''A Reporter's Life'' in 1996.<ref name="kansas" /> Materials from the archive would later be integral to the television adaptation ''Cronkite Remembers'', which was shown on the [[Discovery Channel]].<ref name="papers">{{cite web|title=News Media History – Walter Cronkite The Walter Cronkite Papers|work=The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History|publisher=University of Texas at Austin|date=2006–2008|url=http://www.cah.utexas.edu/collections/news_media_cronkite.php|access-date=July 18, 2009|archive-date=September 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190910051944/http://www.cah.utexas.edu/collections/news_media_cronkite.php|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Walter Cronkite on Apollo 11 Moon Landing|work=The Inspiration Room |date=July 18, 2009 |url=http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2009/walter-cronkite-on-apollo-11-moon-landing/|access-date=July 18, 2009}}</ref>

NASA presented Cronkite with a [[Moon rock]] sample from the early Apollo expeditions spanning 1969 to 1972.<ref name="moon">{{cite web|title=NASA Honors Veteran Journalist Walter Cronkite|publisher=NASA|date=February 28, 2006|url=http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/features/cronkite_ambassador_of_exploration.html|access-date=July 18, 2009|archive-date=July 29, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090729081122/http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/features/cronkite_ambassador_of_exploration.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Patch |first=Justin|title=Apollo 11 moon rock named for Cronkite on display at UT Texas Memorial Museum|newspaper=Daily Texan|date=June 8, 2009 |url=http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2006/06/08/University/Apollo.11.Moon.Rock.Named.For.Cronkite.On.Display.At.Ut.Texas.Memorial.Museum-2043064.shtml |access-date=July 20, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070529015754/http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2006/06/08/University/Apollo.11.Moon.Rock.Named.For.Cronkite.On.Display.At.Ut.Texas.Memorial.Museum-2043064.shtml |archive-date =May 29, 2007 }}</ref> Cronkite passed on the Moon rock to [[William C. Powers|Bill Powers]], president of the [[University of Texas at Austin]], and it became part of the collection at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Carleton said at this occasion, "We are deeply honored by Walter Cronkite's decision to entrust this prestigious award to the Center for American History. The Center already serves as the proud steward of his professional and personal papers, which include his coverage of the space program for CBS News. It is especially fitting that the archive documenting Walter's distinguished career should also include one of the moon rocks that the heroic astronauts of the Apollo program brought to Earth."<ref name="papers" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Newsman Walter Cronkite to be honored by NASA|work=University of Texas at Austin: Office of Public Affairs|publisher=Infinite Now|date=February 3, 2006|url=http://hypography.com/forums/science-news/5635-newsman-walter-cronkite-to-honored-nasa.html|access-date=July 18, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725223641/http://hypography.com/forums/science-news/5635-newsman-walter-cronkite-to-honored-nasa.html|archive-date=July 25, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Memorial at Missouri Western State University ===
On November 4, 2013, [[Missouri Western State University]] in [[St. Joseph, Missouri]], dedicated the Walter Cronkite Memorial.<ref>{{cite news |last=Weston |first=Alonzo |date=November 4, 2013 |title=Western dedicates Cronkite memorial |url=http://www.newspressnow.com/news/local_news/article_52261b96-416b-5ee5-8aa6-4fbf54545e5e.html |newspaper=St. Joseph News-Press |access-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> The nearly 6,000 square-foot memorial includes images, videos and memorabilia from Cronkite's life and the many events he covered as a journalist.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.waltercronkitememorial.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241107221904/http://waltercronkitememorial.org/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=November 7, 2024 |title=Walter Cronkite Memorial |access-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> The memorial includes a replica of the newsroom from which Cronkite broadcast the news during the 1960s and 1970s.<ref>{{cite news |last=Waltz |first=Adam |date=November 9, 2015 |title=New piece of Cronkite display opens |url=http://www.newspressnow.com/news/local_news/article_169adf76-1153-5e19-9d8e-df01cf4f2b46.html |newspaper=St. Joseph News-Press |access-date=March 4, 2016}}</ref> In 2014, the Memorial received the Missouri Division of Tourism's Spotlight Award.<ref>{{cite news |title=Walter Cronkite Memorial receives state tourism award |url=http://www.stjoechannel.com/news/walter-cronkite-memorial-receives-state-tourism-award |newspaper=KQTV |location=St. Joseph, Missouri |date=October 10, 2014 |access-date=March 4, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160420041645/http://www.stjoechannel.com/news/walter-cronkite-memorial-receives-state-tourism-award |archive-date=April 20, 2016 }}</ref>