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The Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce's Valley Young Professionals (VYP), formally the Under 40 Roundtable, meets monthly to exchange ideas through networking, professional development and community involvement. The purpose of VYP is to promote business growth, further your career and contribute to our community. Together, we are developing the next generation of leaders who will take Phoenix to the next level of world class cities to work, live and play in.



Speaker: Dean Christopher Callahan, Founding Dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication Topic: Walter Cronkite's Legacy in Phoenix

ASU's journalism program exploded onto the national education landscape in 1984 when the school was named in honor of Walter Cronkite, the longtime CBS Evening News anchor.  2004 marked the Cronkite School becoming an independent unit and an integral part of a newly planned campus in downtown Phoenix.  The following year Christopher Callahan of the University of Maryland was named the school's founding dean and declared a simple yet ambitious goal:  to take the excellent journalism school and make it the pre-eminent professional journalism program in the country. 

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