About Cronkite News

Cronkite News delivers important, impactful Arizona news on its own platforms and through news and sports organizations across the region. We have reporting bureaus in Phoenix, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles.

Cronkite News is a product of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. The program has full-time editors/professionals who work closely with student journalists to produce daily and enterprise news and sports content on TV, digital and social media platforms for Southwest audiences. They pitch story ideas, get assignments and report and produce multimedia stories on deadline under the direction of professional editors for Cronkite News and sports – all while meeting the expectations of this professional news organization.

Locations

  • Phoenix bureau
    Phoenix bureau
    555 N. Central Ave., Suite 302
    Phoenix, AZ 85004-1248    (602) 496-5050[email protected]
  • Washington, D.C., bureau
    Washington, D.C., bureau
    1800 I Street NW
    Washington, D.C., 20006    (202) 684-2400[email protected]
  • Phoenix Sports bureau
    Phoenix Sports bureau
    555 N. Central Ave., Suite 302
    Phoenix, AZ 85004-1248    (602) 496-5020[email protected]
  • Los Angeles bureau
    Los Angeles bureau
    1111 S. Broadway
    Los Angeles, CA 90015    (424) 238-0272[email protected]

Newsroom Leaders

  • Allysa Adams
    Allysa Adams
    Managing Editor/Broadcast, Phoenix News Bureau
  • Paola Boivin
    Paola Boivin
    Director, Phoenix Sports Bureau
  • Steve Crane
    Steve Crane
    Director, Washington, D.C., Bureau
  • Andres Diaz
    Andres Diaz
    Supervising Producer, Phoenix News Bureau
  • Michael Fairwell
    Michael Fairwell
    Broadcast Teaching Professor, Phoenix News Bureau
  • Marian Frank
    Marian Frank
    RWJF Health Director, Phoenix News Bureau
  • Jim Jacoby
    Jim Jacoby
    Director of Television and Graphics Lab, Cronkite News/Arizona PBS
  • Christina Leonard
    Christina Leonard
    Executive Editor, Cronkite News
  • Emmanuel Lozano
    Emmanuel Lozano
    Visuals Director, Phoenix News & Sports Bureaus
  • Alex McBurney
    Alex McBurney
    Director, TV and Graphics Lab
  • Gail Rhodes
    Gail Rhodes
    Content Director, Phoenix Sports Bureau
  • Shemar Woods
    Shemar Woods
    Content Director, Phoenix Sports Bureau

Staff

Our partners

  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Google News Lab
  • Parse.ly
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Health stories are supported, in part, through a generous grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest philanthropy dedicated solely to health. The funding helped establish the Southwest Health Reporting Initiative, which provides health care news and information with a focus on Latino, Native American and Spanish-speaking border communities across the Southwest.

Sustainability stories are supported, in part, through a generous grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. CPB is a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967 that is the steward of the federal government’s investment in public broadcasting. The funding established Elemental: Covering Sustainability, a multimedia collaboration between Cronkite News, Arizona PBS, KJZZ, KPCC, Rocky Mountain PBS and PBS SoCal.