By Kevin McCauley
Janine Iamunno, a former senior VP-communications for AOL’s Patch hyperlocal news site, has joined the University of North Carolina Wilmington as executive director of university relations.
She takes over for Cindy Lawson, who left the school earlier this year for a PR post at DePaul University in Chicago.
Prior to the Patch, Iamunno held the senior director of PR post at CNN and its sister HLN network. She handled PR for programming, talent and significant news events, such as the 2008 presidential election and “CNN Heros: An All Star Tribute.”
Earlier, she was at MTV, doing PR for news, events, documentaries and social initiatives like the “Fight for Your Rights! campaign and a voter mobilization drive.
Iamunno is a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. |