Eric Newton

From 2015 to 2020, Newton was Innovation Chief at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Turned down for a job as a reporter there in 1979, he edited newspapers in Mill Valley and Richmond before returning to the Tribune as a copy editor in 1984.

Newton was founding president of the First Amendment Project, a nonprofit law firm representing citizens seeking access to government records.

He shared in a 2004 Peabody Award for Mosaic: World News from the Middle East, a television program created for LinkTV.

He received the Reddick Award for distinguished contributions in communications from the University of Texas at Austin, and a special First Amendment Award from the Radio and Television Digital News Association for his role in creating Sunshine Week.