Pamela
J. Creedon worked as a public relations practitioner for 15 years before entering
academe. Her public relations experience in the field includes 10 years in higher
education, where she was the first woman to direct the Public Information Office
at Mount Union College. She then spent five years in public relations at a Fortune
100 company, where she was active in the International Association of Business
Communicators. An accredited business communicator, she joined the faculty at
The Ohio State University in 1984, where she taught public relations for 10 years.
In 1994, she became director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication
at Kent State University. She leads an accredited program of 19 full-time faculty,
20 adjuncts, and 1,200 students in 10 majors. She has served on the executive
committee of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
as chair of the Commission on the Status of Women and as chair of the Standing
Committee on Professional Freedom and Responsibility. She is the editor of two
books published by Sage: Women in Mass Communication: Challenging Gender Values
and Women, Media and Sport. She earned her master's degree in journalism from
the University of Oregon.
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