Downie to join ASU faculty
The former longtime executive editor of The Washington Post, Leonard Downie Jr., is joining the faculty of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
Downie, who led his newspaper to more Pulitzer Prizes than any editor in American journalism history, will be the Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Cronkite School and will hold the faculty rank of professor of practice.
He will begin his post in August at the school’s new downtown Phoenix campus, teaching courses and working with advanced students at the Carnegie-Knight News21 Journalism Initiative, Cronkite News Service, the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and other new school programs.
“I am honored and excited about the opportunity to join Dean Christopher Callahan and the outstanding journalists and educators he has assembled at the Cronkite School,” Downie said. “I look forward to working with them to prepare tomorrow’s professional journalists at a time of extraordinary change and challenge in the news media. I hope to play a role in ensuring that enterprising and ethical journalism that holds the powerful accountable will survive and prosper in the new media age. As a state university graduate who owes much to public education, I am also pleased to help carry on that mission for a new generation of students at ASU.”
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