Office: 3021 Gaylord Hall

Phone: (405) 325-4052

E-mail: kjohnson@ou.edu

Education

• Oral Roberts University (B.S.)

• Full Sail University (M.B.A.)

Background

Kathleen Johnson is the McMahon Centennial Professor. The McMahon professorship was the first endowed position for the journalism program at OU and was funded in 1989 by the McMahon Foundation of Lawton. The McMahon professorship enables the college to attract experienced professionals to train the next generation of broadcast journalists.

A1987 telecommunication graduate from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa,Johnson brings with her more than 20 years of award-winning experience in top executive, programming, production, communications, and marketing positions in broadcast, network, cable, satellite, and new media.  She worked as a producer with increasing degrees of responsibility for several NBC television stations in Tulsa, Florida and Washington, D.C. from 1986 to 1998 and has worked as an executive in the satellite television industry. She has received a national Emmy nomination and four regional Emmy awards as well as seven Telly awards for her work in children’s television and for long-format newcasts. She is also the recipient of an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television News Director Association.