Justin Cole, press secretary to Federal Communications Commission chief Tom Wheeler, is moving to the Federal Trade Commission on Feb. 10 as director of its public affairs unit.
Cole has a blend of government, corporate and journalism experience during his 18-year career.
Peter Kaplan, a former Reuters reporter who joined the FTC in 2008, has been acting director of the PA operation at the FTC.
Prior to the FCC, he worked as U.S. corporate communications manager for Tata Communications and was deputy editor at Fitch Rating’s EMEA corporate PR group in London.
Cole covered the business and economics beats for Agence France-Press in D.C. after beginning his reporting career in London for Dow Jones Newswires.
FTC chairwoman Edith Ramirez is certain that Cole’s background will help “advance the public’s understanding of the important work we do to protect American consumers.”
Husch Blackwell Strategies has added FleishmanHillard alum Michael Slatin as a principal in its public affairs group.
Rory Cooper, a veteran Republican operative and policy specialist, has joined Teneo’s Washington office as senior managing director in its strategy & communications practice.
Brian Fallon, who served as national press secretary for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run, is signing on next month as Vice President’s Kamala Harris’ campaign communications director.
TikTok is nothing more than a Chinese propaganda tool that poses “a grave threat to America’s national security and, in particular, impressionable children and young adults,” say two Congressmen who want the platform registered as a foreign agent.
Public Strategies Washington has added Abbie Sorrendino, a former aide to now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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