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Emmanuel Macron
Alison StewartFrench President Emmanuel Macron, contending with a sharp drop in his public approval ratings, has appointed Bruno Roger-Petit as his spokesman, part of an overall shake-up of his communications team. Already well-known in France due to his appearances as a television news presenter and frequent talk-show guest, Roger-Petit will be tasked with “broadcasting the Elysée’s public message” via “any means at his disposal, notably the presidency’s Twitter account,” a statement from Macron’s office said. A survey conducted by international polling and market research firm IFOP on August 25 and 26 showed Macron with an approval rating of 40 percent, down 22 points from the 62 percent rating he had immediately following his election in May.
The Atlantic has brought on Peabody Award-winning broadcast journalist Alison Stewart as a contributing editor in its events division, AtlanticLIVE. Stewart, who began her career at MTV News, has anchored her own programs on NPR, PBS, ABC, and MSNBC. She is also the author of the book, First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America's First Black Public High School. In her new role, Stewart will serve as a moderator for The Atlantic’s portfolio of events on topics ranging from healthcare innovations, to social justice, to the future of work. She will be a featured moderator at next month’s Washington Ideas, The Atlantic and Aspen Institute’s annual multi-day event.
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Larry Sherman (R) with fellow actor Ed AsnerLarry Sherman, an actor and former journalist who signed on as President Trump’s first publicist in 1982, when Trump was the owner of the U.S. Football League’s New Jersey Generals, died Saturday of natural causes at 94, according to his son, entertainment publicist Charles Sherman. Larry Sherman was an out-of-work sports journalist with no experience in publicity when he applied for the job as head of PR for the Generals. Trump hired him after just one interview, and Sherman worked for Trump until the USFL went out of business after its 1985 season. Trump often called him "the best PR guy he ever had," according to Charles Sherman. Larry Sherman’s career also included roles in North by Northwest and Butterfield 8, and reporting stints at Newsday, the Long Island Press and the New York Herald Tribune.
WNET, the nation’s largest public media company, names Edward O’Keefe its next president and CEO, effective September 21. O’Keefe succeeds Neal Shapiro, who becomes president emeritus and will retire at the end of the year... The Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, which would empower news publishers and other content providers to defend themselves by mandating transparency for all bots crawling their sites, in introduced in the House by Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL) and Rep. Valerie Foushee (D-NC)... Google gets socked by European Union regulators with a $1 billion fine for using the platform’s dominance as a search engine to illegally undercut competition.
Boston Globe Media acquires InstaTrac, a company that provides subscription-based services aimed at making government information easier to find, track, and understand... AARP names former New Republic CEO and publisher Michael Caruso as its SVP and chief content officer, unifying the organization's portfolio of media, live events and digital platforms... The Fund for American Studies, an educational nonprofit, awards its inaugural Journalism Excellence Fellowships.
Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. has replaced CEO and former California Congressman Devin Nunes with Kevin McGurn, a seasoned media sales executive.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is being bought by the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, a nonprofit that is the parent organization of the Baltimore Banner... The British Broadcasting Corporation is axing approximately 2,000 jobs, about 10 percent of its work force... Snap, the company behind Snapchat, is also succumbing to layoff fever, announcing plans to lay off 16 percent of its employees, about 1,000 people.
CBS News Radio will go off the air on May 22, part of the axe-swinging managerial plan put into play by CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss... The Economist, which was first published in 1843, is changing hands. Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith has agreed to acquire a 26.9 percent stake in the publication from Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, her family and family foundation... Nexstar Media Group says it has closed its acquisition of TEGNA, the broadcast, digital media and marketing services company that was formed in 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies.
