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Disney Chief Operating Officer Thomas Staggs leaving that job, effective May 6, but will remain as a special adviser to CEO Robert Iger through the fiscal year ... Univision Communications starts Corporate Social Responsibility Council, being led by Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, executive vice president-government & corporate affairs, and Chad Boettcher, senior vice president-social impact; they also co-chair external advisory board to the council; and at the company, Steven Levine named vice president-corporate social responsibility, new position, and Ron Estrada expands role to vice president-national community empowerment ... Transparent Media Partners hires Eric Bader, ex-RadiumOne, to oversee operations ... Nexstar promotes Ward Huey to vice president-general manager, KETK-TV Jacksonville, Texas, associated digital properties and overseeing joint operating agreement with White Knight Broadcasting for stations including KFXK-TV Longview.
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Among those on Center for Democracy & Technology new advisory council, CDT said, are co-chairmen/CDT founders Jerry Berman and Danny Weitzner, and members Rebecca Arbogast, Comcast NBCUniversal, James Assey, NCTA, Stephen Balkam, Family Online Safety Institute, Alvaro Bedoya, Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology, Mary Bono, Faegre BD Consulting, Bob Boorstin, Albright Stonebridge Group, Jon Callas, Silent Circle, Mark Chandler, Alissa Cooper and Michelle Dennedy, all of Cisco, Pablo Chavez, LinkedIn, Soraya Chemaly, Women's Media Center, Maura Corbett, Glen Echo Group, Bob Corn-Revere, Davis Wright, Jim Dempsey, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Caroline Elkin, Activision Blizzard, Donna Epps, Verizon, Bennett Freeman, Global Network Initiative, Christine Frye, Bank of America, Joe Gratz, Durie Tangri, Aimee Rogstad Guidera, Data Quality Campaign, Jim Halpert, DLA Piper, Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, Univision Communications, Todd Hinnen, Perkins Coie, Jane Horvath, Apple, Gus Hosein, Privacy International, Fred Humphries, Microsoft, Brian Huseman, Amazon, Matt Jacobs and Nancy Libin, both of Jenner & Block, Joel Kaplan, Facebook, Karen Kornbluh, Nielsen, Adam Kovacevich, Google, Elliot Maxwell, National Research Council Board on Research Data and Information, Rebecca MacKinnon, New America, Katie Moussouris, HackerOne, Michael Nelson, CloudFlare, Mauricio Paez, Jones Day, Lydia Parnes, Wilson Sonsini, Chip Pickering, Comptel, Lee Rainie, Pew Research Center, Gary Shapiro, CTA, Peter Dengate Thrush, ex-ICANN chairman, Stewart Verdery, Monument Policy Group, Heather West, Mozilla, and Christopher Wolf, Hogan Lovells.
Newly added to NAB boards are, for radio board: David Bevins, Connoisseur Media; Larry Fuss, South Seas Broadcasting; and Jessica Marventano, iHeartMedia; and for TV board: Hilton Howell, Gray Television, and Louis Wall, SagamoreHill Broadcasting ... Lobbyist registrations: 21st Century Privacy Coalition, FaegreBD Consulting, effective Feb. 1 ... Veritas Technologies, Hettinger Strategy Group, effective April 1.