By Greg Hazley
Judith McHale, the former Discovery Communications chief who has served as the U.S.’s image chief at the State Dept., is planning to step down, according to the Washington Post.
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McHale, as Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, has traveled extensively since being nominated to the post in April 2009 by President Barack Obama and played a role in repairing the U.S. image abroad in the wake of two wars and the financial crisis. Educational programs were key to her outreach efforts.
"This is not a propaganda contest – it is a relationship race," she told the Center for a New American Security in Washington, D.C., in June 2009. "And we have got to get back in the game."
She spent 20 years at Discovery, stepping down in 2006 as president and CEO, and is a former general counsel for MTV Networks.
The Post said her exit could be announced as soon as today.
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