William Dermody Jr., deputy managing editor for world news at USA Today, has decamped for the VP of policy slot at the American Beverage Association in Washington.
Susan Neely, president of the influential trade group, sees Dermody's experience "covering and managing significant issues around the world" as an asset to its members in the $141B sector.
Environmental sustainability, health, science and tax issues await Dermody at ABA, which has faced soda tax battles in Europe, as well as the US, in recent years.
AT USAT, he managed reporters in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the US. He also served as an assignment editor for the Gannet property, which he joined after editing and reporting stints with the Associated Press.
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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