Alison Smale, Berlin bureau chief of the New York Times, has joined the United Nations as Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications and chief of its Dept. of Public Information. She succeeds Spain's Christina Gallach, who exited in April.
The 62-year-old British journalist has helmed the NYT's Berlin office since 2013.
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Alison SmaleEarlier, Smale was executive editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris, which was rebranded four years ago as the International New York Times. She was the first woman to head that paper.
Before joining the Times in 1998, Smale reported for United Press International and Associated Press in the Balkans and Moscow.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has promised to appoint more women to top-level positions.
The world body came under pressure last year for using a cartoon character, Wonder Woman, in its campaign to promote gender equality.
Erik Hotmire has rejoined the Securities and Exchange Commission as chief external affairs officer and director of the Office of Public Affairs.
California seeks a firm to handle a $3.5M marketing/ad program to promote awareness of, and increase sign-ups in, its job corps program. 
The National Highway Safety Administration has awarded its public education to Stratacomm following a competitive re-compete process.
Congress wants the FTC to probe whether TikTok violated child privacy laws when it launched a last-ditch lobbying blitz to defeat the bill requiring its owner, ByteDance, to divest it.
Jeffrey Nesbit, who served as communications director for former vice president Dan Quayle, is named assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
