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Ilana OzernoyThe appointment was first reported today on Politico’s New York Playbook.
Ozernoy was chief of staff to New York mayor Bill de Blasio’s legal counsel, where she was responsible for managing political and strategic work, as well as supervising that unit’s staff of attorneys and analysts. She previously served as communications director for the mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. Prior to joining the de Blasio administration, Ozernoy was a tenure-track professor at The Stony Brook University School of Journalism, and spearheaded the development of a center for international reporting at that school.
Ozernoy served as a journalist for more than a decade, and was a staff writer for The Atlantic, a staff foreign correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and a radio correspondent for Marketplace. As a war correspondent, she covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and also ran U.S. News & World Report’s Baghdad bureau.
Ozernoy succeeds Daisy Dunlop, who served a three-year stint at the multinational media corporation’s New York headquarters, arriving in 2013 before being appointed deputy communications head in Feb. 2015. Dunlop has since returned to her native UK, where she now takes the role of PR chief for News Corp’s U.K. operations.
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