Gabriella Stern, a longtime Wall Street Journal reporter and editor, has moved to the PR side with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle.
Stern is director of media and external relations for the global health and education juggernaut. She exits the Journal as deputy managing editor and editor of strategic initiatives, a post she took on in 2014 to help the paper expand globally. She spent nearly 25 years with the WSJ and parent Dow Jones, joining in 1991 in its Pittsburgh bureau.
Stern joined the Journal in 1991 from the Omaha World-Herald, where she was a reporter in Nebraska and Washington, D.C.
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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