Rate My Professor Brett Kurland

Brett Kurland is Assistant Dean, Director of Master’s Programs, Director of Sports Programs, and Professor of Practice at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Joining the school in 2012 as Faculty Associate, he advanced to Professor of Practice in 2014 and founding Director of the Cronkite News Phoenix Sports Bureau (2014–2021), where upper-level undergraduate and master’s students produced written and video stories on professional, collegiate, and high school sports for The Arizona Republic, Arizona PBS, Fox Sports, Pac-12 Networks, and ArizonaSports.com. Under his leadership, the bureau created “Cronkite Sports Report,” a 30-minute sports news magazine show that was a national finalist and regional winner in the Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence Awards and best TV sports news program at the Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts, and “Cronkite Sports Now,” a daily live show on Facebook Live. As Director of Sports Programs since 2021, Kurland oversees bachelor’s and master’s sports journalism curricula, faculty, and partnerships with the NFL, NCAA, U.S. Soccer, Sports Journalism Institute, Pac-12 Conference, and Sun Devil Athletics, growing the program to over 50% of the school’s immersion student population. Since 2022 as Assistant Dean, he advances schoolwide academic strategy, faculty supervision and hiring, chairs the Academic Standards and Master’s Committees, oversees 11 capstone professional immersion programs, supervises the activation of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Reporting and Communications Initiative ($1MM+ grant), manages ~$2MM in graduate funding, and contributes to accreditation with the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.