Michael Wong

Michael Wong is the Director of Alumni Services at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix. In this role, he helps serve thousands of Cronkite Nation alumni by designing professional development programs to help them with career success. As Cronkite Nation alumni are a very talented group with much to offer current students, Wong will communicate various opportunities for Cronkite Nation alumni to engage and participate in School activities and programs. Wong started his career in Phoenix at KPNX-TV (NBC/Gannett) as an associate producer/editor and then was promoted to producer of the morning show. The next twelve years were dedicated to heading the news and public affairs department at KAET-TV (PBS), making him one of the youngest (if not the youngest) television news directors in the Phoenix market. As the manager of news and public affairs and the executive producer of the award-winning prime-time nightly public affairs show Horizon, Wong helped plan and lead coverage of the Mecham Impeachment Trial and several elections, most of which won regional Emmys. Wong is a member of the Cronkite School Hall of Fame. While he worked in television news and public affairs, he also taught at the Cronkite School. His teaching endeavors began in 1985--- and he has taught television production, writing, reporting and newscast production classes. His 15+ years of international consulting experience includes coordinating training workshops for professional journalists from Bosnia, Macedonia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Serbia.