Brett Pulley, a journalism vet who moved to PR last year, has joined Weber Shandwick as an EVP and managing director for corporate content and media strategy.

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The former dean of Hampton University's Scripps Howard School of Journalism was a reporter for the Times Union, Orlando Sentinel, Wall Street Journal and New York Times. He was also an editor for Forbes and writer for Bloomberg News around a stint in New York's dot-com realm.

Paul Jensen, who heads Weber's North American corporate practice, praised Pulley's seasoned storytelling skills as the firm places content and media strategy and the core of its client work.

He was dean of the 400-student Hampton j-school from 2011-15 and took an advisory role with Burson-Marsteller last year.

He penned a book about BET founder Robert Johnson, "The Billion Dollar BET."