The Walter Cronkite School and Knight Foundation have collaborated to create a new $15,000 grant for alumni. Brandon Quester of the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and Weston Phippen of the National Journal were the first recipients.
James B. Steele, part of Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting duo Barlett & Steele, and
Andrew Leckey, ASU Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism and president of the Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, handed out the eighth annual Barlett and Steele Investigative Business Journalism Awards during this week's Must See Monday at the Cronkite School.
Due to overbooking of students at their on-campus housing, nearly 200 Grand Canyon University students live at the Roosevelt Point Apartments in downtown Phoenix. The off-campus students face a 14-mile round trip commute and pay up to twice as much in rent.