Former White House Press Secretary Heads to Amazon
Jay Carney follows David Plouffe into corporate communications.
When Jay Carney stepped down as the White House press secretary in 2014 and made way for still-new guy Josh Earnest, many observers guessed that he would move on to a top comms position in the tech industry.
They were correct.
Today Politico’s Mike Allen got the scoop: Carney will join Amazon on Monday as SVP for worldwide corporate affairs. The company’s PR chief Craig Berman and VP of Public Policy (aka top lobbyist) Paul Misener will report to Carney and he will report directly to Jeff Bezos himself.
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