Cronkite Award
CBS’s Bob Schieffer accepted the 2013 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism aa luncheon ceremony Oct. 29 at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel.
Schieffer, an award-winning correspondent, has 56 years of reporting experience. He has spent the past 44 years reporting on politics and government for CBS, serving as the network’s chief Washington correspondent since 1982 and moderator of “Face the Nation” since 1991. He is one of the few journalists to have covered all four major beats in the nation’s capital – the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department and Capitol Hill. The news veteran has also moderated three presidential debates – in 2004, 2008 and 2012 – and has covered every presidential campaign and been a reporter or anchor at every Democratic and Republican national convention since 1972.
Schieffer is the 30th recipient of the annual award, hosted by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Other Cronkite Award recipients include TV anchors Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw and Christiane Amanpour; newspaper journalists Ben Bradlee, Helen Thomas and Bob Woodward; and media executives Katharine Graham, Al Neuharth and Bill Paley.
Photo: CBS News broadcaster Bob Schieffer is joined on stage by (left to right) John Misner, Cronkite School Endowment Board president; Elizabeth D. Phillips, ASU executive vice president and provost; and Christopher Callahan, Cronkite School dean and university vice provost.
PHOTO BY MOLLY J. SMITH/ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
