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Karla Vallance

Karla Vallance

Visiting Associate Professor
of Journalism

BA, Michigan State University

Prof. Vallance brings 30 years of national and international media experience in multiple media -- online, print, public and international radio, and US and international television -- to her teaching at Boston University. She served as Managing Editor, Electronic Publishing for The Christian Science Monitor in Boston during the eight years of the award-winning website csmonitor.com's greatest growth. Before moving to the world of online, she was Executive Producer & Managing Editor of Monitor Radio, the Monitor's highly acclaimed public radio programming.

Vallance wrote, edited and produced television news programming for CNN and CNN International in Atlanta, from the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989), through the Gulf War, the end of the Soviet Union, the genocide in Rwanda, and the war in the Balkans. Her first full-time professional job was covering the suburbs for the Chicago Tribune/Suburban Trib, but she started her career at 13, writing for her hometown Champaign-Urbana (Ill.) News-Gazette. Her degree is from Michigan State University; her study abroad experience includes a sophomore year circumnavigation of the globe on Semester at Sea.

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