Poynter Institute President Announces Retirement

By: Andrew Beaujon and Kristen Hare | Poytner

Karen Dunlap, who has led the Poynter Institute since 2003, announced to staff Monday she plans to retire in January. “We need to take some big steps,” Dunlap told Poynter’s faculty and staff. “And I think it’s time for somebody else to do that.”

 Dunlap first came to Poynter for a seminar in the 1980s. “It was wonderful,” she said in an interview. “It was life-changing.”