Editing Walter Cronkite (section)

=== 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" />