KAREN DUNLAP
President and Managing Director
Writing and Newspaper Ownership
FACULTY SINCE:
August 1988
RECENT WORK:
“The Effective Editor” (co-author),
“The Editorial Eye” (co-author)
| PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY |
Karen Brown Dunlap is president of The Poynter Institute as well as a Trustee at Poynter and a member of the Board of Directors of the (St. Petersburg) Times Publishing Company. She is also on the board of the Newspaper Association of America Foundation and Eckerd Youth Alternatives, Inc.
She has led seminars on writing throughout the nation and abroad, including sessions in South Africa and the Netherlands.
She is co-author of "The Effective Editor" with Foster Davis, co-author of "The Editorial Eye" with Jane Harrigan, and was editor of the Institute’s Best Newspaper Writing series. She has served twice as a Pulitzer Prize jurist.
She was a reporter for the Macon News and the Nashville Banner, and stints as a staff writer at the St. Petersburg Times. She began her tenure at Poynter in 1989. Prior to that she taught journalism at Tennessee State University in Nashville, and at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Dunlap is a graduate of Michigan State University and Tennessee State University, and received her Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee.
She has been recognized as an outstanding alum by each. In 2005, she received the Gerald M. Sass Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communications. In 2006, she received an honorary doctorate from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg and the Missouri Honor Medal from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Dr. Dunlap is married, has four children and lots of grandchildren. |
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| Karen B. Dunlap is president of The Poynter Institute. She is also the co-author, with Foster Davis, of "The Effective Editor." |
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