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Grady College names King its new department head for PR, advertising

By Sallie Barker
sbarker@uga.edu

Karen Whitehill King has been named department head of advertising and public relations at the Grady College of Journalism

Karen Whitehille King

and Mass Communication.
“I am very pleased that Professor King accepted the position of department chair,” says John Soloski, dean of the Grady College. “She is well qualified for the position and has the full support of her colleagues. I am looking forward to working with her. She is a real asset to the Grady College.”
King has an extensive background in research. Her interests focus on health communications and advertising industry issues. She has published her research in many leading academic journals including Journal of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Newspaper Research, Journal of Health Care Marketing and Journalism Educator. In addition, King has presented her work at advertising, marketing and mass communication academic conferences.
Her primary teaching interests are media planning, advertising account planning/research and advertising campaigns. King is a member of the graduate faculty and was a participant in the UGA Lilly Teaching Fellows program. In 1999, the American Advertising Federation’s Seventh District named her the Donald G. Hileman Educator of the Year. Two years later, she was inducted into UGA’s Teaching Academy, which recognizes excellence in teaching and exists to promote improved teaching throughout the university.
As head of the advertising and public relations department, King succeeds Dean Krugman who now serves as associate dean of academic affairs for the Grady College.
Prior to joining the Grady College in 1985, King worked at Foote, Cone and Belding Communications, Inc., in Chicago as a media buyer/planner and a research supervisor. While on the faculty at UGA, she has been a visiting communication researcher at the Centers for Disease Control working on an AIDS public service campaign and a visiting professor at Lintas, an advertising agency in New York.

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