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.
^Terrill, Marshall (18 November 2011). "Amanpour Accepts 2011 Walter Cronkite Award". ABC News. Retrieved 24 November 2017. 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...
^ abcdDantuono, Rebecca (18 April 2017). "ASU's Cronkite Award to honor pair of 'PBS NewsHour' journalists". The Arizona Republic. Retrieved 24 November 2017. 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.
^Eckenrode, Jenna (15 October 2004). "Renaissance man wins Cronkite award". ASU Web Devil. Retrieved 24 November 2017. 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.
^ abcd"Bob Schieffer receives Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism". CBS News. 29 October 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2017. 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.
