Karen M. Turner is an associate professor and director of the broadcast journalism concentration in the Department of Journalism at Temple University. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in broadcast journalism, performance and media race studies. Before joining the Temple faculty in 1992, Turner was the press secretary to former Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell. She has extensive experience as a radio journalist and talk radio interviewer having worked in such markets as Philadelphia, Cincinnati and New Brunswick, N.J. Turner has degrees from Dartmouth College, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Northwestern University School of Law. She served as department chair from 2000-2003. Turner is a past president of Temple University’s Faculty Senate, serving as its president from 2008 through 2010. She is a 2001 graduate of the HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Leadership Institute and a founding member of Temple’s Academic Center on Research in Diversity (ACCORD). Turner is currently the director of ACCORD. In 2012 she earned a Certificate in Diversity Leadership through Temple’s Graduate School of Education. In 2013 she was awarded the prestigious Lindback Distinguished Teaching award. Turner was awarded a Spring 2011 sabbatical to take a reflective look at her online race media studies course that she’s taught since 1997. She was selected the inaugural recipient of the School of Communications and Theater’s Innovative Teaching award in 2004.
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