Dean Susan King awarded 2015 DeWitt Carter Reddick Award for communication excellence

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media Dean Susan King was honored with the DeWitt Carter Reddick Award from the University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication at an awards ceremony Sunday, April 19.

The Reddick Award was established in 1974 and recognizes excellence in the field of communication. Past recipients include Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite, Bill Moyers, Ted Turner and Helen Thomas, among others.

King has been dean of the UNC journalism school since January 2012. She is the former vice president for external affairs for Carnegie Corporation of New York where she oversaw the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education and all communications.

Prior to Carnegie, King worked in the Clinton administration for five years as the assistant secretary for public affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor. For more than 25 years she was a broadcast journalist and began her reporting career in Buffalo, N.Y., and worked mostly in Washington, D.C.

She was the White House correspondent for ABC News as well as a well-respected anchor and political reporter in the nation’s capital. As an independent journalist she reported for CNN, CNBC, NPR and ABC Radio News.

King attended Fairfield University in Connecticut where she received her master’s in communications and a bachelor’s degree from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York. She is John Thomas Kerr Distinguished Professor at UNC.

University of Texas at Austin Moody College of Communication contact:
Lauren Phillips, lauren.phillips@austin.utexas.edu, (512) 471-2182