By Greg Hazley
Joe Lockhart, the former Clinton White House press secretary who founded Glover Park Group in 2001, is slated to join Facebook as VP of global communications.
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Lockhart’s appointment comes weeks after reports that the social networking giant was in discussions with former Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs. It also gives Facebook political and PR experience at a time of scrutiny over privacy issues and a rumored IPO for the company.
Lockhart, along with Al Gore staffers Michael Feldman and Carter Eswek, built Glover Park into a Democrat-heavy PR and public affairs shop with operations in New York and Washington, D.C., that handles corporate, political and issues work.
At Palo Alto-based Facebook, which he is slated to join July 15, he’ll report to global VP of communications Elliott Schrage, an attorney who moved to Facebook from Google in 2008. He'll manage the company's coporate, policy and international communications teams.
Brandee Barker, a former Zeno Group VP, left Facebook after four years in November.
Lockhart, a former journalist, worked on the agency side at Bozell Sawyer Miller in the early ‘90s in between stints in politics with Dukakis-Bentsen in ’88 and the Clinton-Gore reelection in ’96. He was a producer and assignment editor/manager for SKY TV, CNN and ABC.
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