Dave Grimaldi, an FCC staff vet director of public affairs at Internet radio provider Pandora, is moving to the Interactive Advertising Bureau as executive VP of public policy to head its Washington operation.
Grimaldi set up Pandora's DC operation after serving as chief of staff and media legal advisor to FCC Commissioner and Acting Chair Mignon Clyburn.
IAB, based in New York, reps the digital advertising industry and media companies accounting for about 86% of the online ad spend in the US.
On the Hill, Grimaldi was senior counsel in the office of Majority Whip James Clyburn and earlier lobbied at Robert Raben Group.
Blickhorn LLC handled the search.
Maggie Moran, who is well-connected in New Jersey and New York Democratic politics, has established Moxie Strategies in Asbury Park, NJ.
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.
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