[1] The school moved from its original location at Old Main to what is now the Academic Services building at ASU Tempe in 1969.

[1] The school was later renamed Department of Journalism and Telecommunication and became a part of the new College of Public Programs in 1979.

[1] A year later, the school established the Cronkite News Service, enabling advanced journalism students to distribute TV and print stories to various professional media.

The school moved into its facility in downtown Phoenix in August 2008, then dedicated the new building in November of that year.

[6] The six-story, 225,000 sqft, 110-foot tall, LEED Silver building has become an integral part of the fabric of ASU's downtown campus.

Delivered in a design-build, fast-track method, work began on design in October 2006 and the school opened its doors in August 2008, only 22 months later.

The program airs five nights a week on the local PBS affiliate KAET at 5 pm.

When the school moved into its new downtown facility, Cronkite News began broadcasting the nightly news program entirely in high definition and moved into a new studio on the sixth floor of the building — housing a new set and control room designed for high definition.

The program airs stories from the school's Cronkite News Service — a broadcast wire service that provides its content to local print, online, and broadcast news outlets across Arizona.