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The mission of the Cronkite School is to prepare the next generation of journalists and communications professionals while also taking responsibility for the fundamental news and information needs of the community through an innovative journalistic “teaching hospital.”

Students get hands-on experiences in a dozen intensive, full-immersion professional programs that produce news, information and community engagement on critical issues for the state, region and nation. They cover the most important issues of the day from public affairs news bureaus in Phoenix and Washington, D.C., and report on sports from bureaus in Los Angeles and Phoenix. Other immersion programs focus on digital audiences, public relations, Spanish-language news, digital innovation and entrepreneurship. Students also conduct national data-driven investigations into issues critical to Americans through the Carnegie-Knight News21 program.

Arizona PBS, one of the nation’s largest public television stations, serves as the hub of this “teaching hospital” and a testing ground for innovation in journalism. Students produce a nightly newscast that reaches 1.9 million households across Arizona on four TV channels and multiple digital platforms.

All of these initiatives originate in a state-of-the-art media complex that is considered one of the best journalism education facilities in the nation. It is equipped with 14 digital newsrooms and computer labs, three TV studios, 385 digital student work stations, the Cronkite Theater, the First Amendment Forum and the latest and most sophisticated technology found anywhere. The school is located in the heart of the nation’s fifth-largest city, with easy access to internships at media companies and to news events and sources at major sports and cultural complexes and government agencies and offices.