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Eric Mansfield, anchor and reporter for Cleveland’s NBC affiliate WKYC-TV, is moving to the PR realm at Kent State University.
Mansfield is set to join the Akron institution to head media relations as executive director on June 1, leading internal and external PR, as well as teaching and mentoring students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Tom Neumann, associate VP for communications and marketing, said University of Dayton grad Mansfield has covered the school and its students, appeared as a guest speaker, and is pursuing a master’s degree in PR from the northeast Ohio school.
Mansfield, a National Guardsman who served in Iraq and Kuwait, has been with WKYC since 1994.