Max Williams fulfilled a dream during Major League Baseball’s Cactus League spring training, as did many of his classmates. Williams, a sophomore at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, received an opportunity when he was among a group of Cronkite School students who covered spring training for a number of professional media outlets.
When the Arizona Diamondbacks made their unexpected run to the World Series, Cronkite students seized the opportunity to cover fall’s biggest sporting event. The students provided game coverage both in and outside of Chase Field, attended press conferences and other events, and interviewed fans, players and key figures associated with the Diamondbacks and the local sports scene. They produced numerous print, digital and video stories for the Cronkite News Phoenix Sports Bureau, a multiplatform newsroom that allows students to cover major sporting events in Phoenix, and serve other media outlets covering the Series.
The Cronkite School will send its own media contingent to cover the biggest sporting event of the year.Students from the Cronkite News Phoenix Sports Bureau will cover Super Bowl 57 at State Farm Stadium, as well as the NFL celebrity and fan events happening throughout the week leading up to the game.In addition, Blaze Radio, ASU’s student-run radio station, sent a group of students to broadcast live from Radio Row during the week.