Facebook hires former Clinton press secretary

Published: 15 June 2011 y., Wednesday

Mr Lockhart, who joins Facebook next month as Vice President of Global Communications, represents the company's latest move to enlist Washington insiders.

Mr. Lockhart was the chief spokesman and senior adviser to President Clinton between 1998 and 2000, according to the biography on the website of the Glover Park Group, a communications firm he co-founded in 2001.

"His experience building and running a press office at the White House gives him particular appreciation for the demands of a global 24-hour news cycle and the challenges of responding effectively to intense scrutiny,'' said Elliot Schrage, Facebook Vice President of Global Communications, Marketing and Public Policy, in an emailed statement.

Facebook, the world's No. 1 internet social network with more than 500 million people, has grown in influence in the internet industry as well as in the spheres of public policy and world affairs during its seven-year history.

 

Šaltinis: telegraph.co.uk
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.

Facebook Comments

New comment


Captcha

Related videos

05/02/2014

Padėkime augti

Expensive broadband hampers penetration

The Poland Ministry of Infrastructure's target to increase by 350 percent the number of broadband Internet users by 2006 more »

search.lt news

search.lt presents newest links more »

Nokia secures mobile network deal in Iraq

Nokia has secured a deal for the setting up of a GSM mobile telephone network in the south of Iraq more »

Pornographer to sell Whitehouse Web site

Owner worried about negative impact on young son more »

search.lt news

search.lt presents newest links more »

Pentium PC Vendors Face Chip Patent Suit

While Linux lawsuits gobble up the IT community's mindshare, a lesser-known legal action is being fought seeking billions of dollars from five PC vendors more »

UK police seek web porn crackdown

UK police are contacting other forces worldwide in an attempt to close down websites with sexually violent content more »

Bush Earmarks $60B for IT

The Bush administration's proposed $60 billion IT spending plan for 2005 looks to deliver a "service-centered" government more »

Secure Cash Out Procedure

New security solution prevents unauthorized withdrawals more »

A jointly developed standard interfaces

GfK consumer panel data to be available to CMplus users via standard interface more »