Arizona delegates offer different perceptions of convention impacts

Cronkite News asked Arizona Democratic and Republican delegates whether their conventions strengthened their parties.


How we used texting to engage Arizona delegates during the political conventions

Cronkite News reported on the Republican and Democratic national political conventions with audience in mind from the start.

Phone at the DNC

Arizona conservatives: Are you with Trump?

At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last week, Donald Trump was officially declared the Republican nominee for president.

Arizona delegate Barbara Wyllie shows her party spirit at the Republican National Convention. (Photo by Christopher West/Cronkite News)

Grijalva calls for party to return to progressive roots, support Clinton

PHILADELPHIA – Rep. Raul Grijalva, one of the earliest congressional supporters of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, took the stage at the Democratic National Convention to say he is throwing support behind likely nominee Hillary Clinton.


Arizonans: What did you think of the Republican National Convention?

At the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Republican nominee Donald Trump promised to “lead the country back to safety, prosperity and peace" and "restore law and order."


Arizona delegates reflect on the state of the GOP

Is the GOP at a historic crossroads? Why or why not?

Ariz. delegates offer their thoughts

Parties bring 21st-century tech to 19th-century conventions

CLEVELAND - Need to find a bathroom at the Republican National Convention? There's an app for that. Kind of.


Arizonans explain why they became Republican delegates

As part of the Cronkite News multi-platform coverage of the Republican National Convention, we connected with Arizona delegates through text messaging. We asked Arizona Republicans in Cleveland why they decided to become delegates. Here's what they had to say:


New Phoenix police chief Jeri Williams: ‘Work tirelessly to make the community safe’

PHOENIX – Arizona native Jeri Williams will become the first woman and second African American to lead the Phoenix Police Department when she becomes chief in October.


TGen teams up with Scottsdale family to take on rare childhood disease

SCOTTSDALE – Wylder Laffoon was just seven months old when his parents, Steven and Shannon Laffoon, learned their son had a rare, genetic disease that meant he would not live past age 3.


Space rocks: ASU team finds meteorites in remote Arizona desert

TEMPE — “The vault” is a climate-controlled room that sits behind three locked doors in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. Housed inside are fifteen charcoal-colored pebbles that collectively weigh less than a quarter of a pound.

The largest of the fifteen meteorites next to a one-centimeter cube for scale. The black outer later is called a “fusion crust” and forms when the outside melts as the objects falls hurtles through the atmosphere at high velocity. (Photo by Anna Copper/Cronkite News)

Meet HuMiX, the gut’s future guide to personalized medicine

CHANDLER – Meet HuMiX, the “gut on a chip” that may lead one day to personalized medical treatments.

Gut chip