Penn State Intercom......August 29, 2002
University Relations names
assistant vice president
Finance and Business announces promotions
Bill
Mahon has been named assistant vice president for University Relations
and director of Public Information for the University. Mahon has worked
as director of the Department of Public Information at Penn State -- an
office of writers, editors, photographers, videographers and Web developers
-- for the past 16 years.
The Division of University Relations is responsible for public information, marketing, advertising, publications, special events and development communications at Penn State. Mahon is responsible for promoting faculty research and student accomplishments, and representing Penn State to the media and the public. His office has developed a number of news and information Web sites for the University. It is responsible for producing a weekly faculty-staff newspaper, Intercom, with 21,000 subscribers at the University's 24 campuses.
Six years ago, the Department of Public Information also created the Penn State Newswire, an e-mail-based daily news service with more than 120,000 subscribers from 50 countries.