Communications Personals
Kelley Drye hires ex-FTC officials Jessica Rich, who remains a fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy, as of counsel, and Laura Riposo VanDruff from AT&T, as partner; they join the law firm’s Privacy and Advertising practice groups ... OneWeb adds Chris Moore, ex-U.K. official, as vice president-international government and trade engagement, Government and Regulatory Affairs Team ... Covington taps ex-Senate Judiciary Committee General Counsel Nick Xenakis for the law firm's Public Policy practice as special counsel ... TechNet promotes Meghan Pearce to manager-federal policy.
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Yahoo taps Tinder’s Jim Lanzone, also former CBS, as CEO, effective Sept. 27, succeeding Guru Gowrappan, named senior adviser to private equity business of Apollo, Yahoo’s financial backer ... Altice USA announces resignation of Hakim Boubazine as chief operating officer and president-telecommunications; his responsibilities to be assumed by CEO Dexter Goei; Boubazine will be senior adviser to the CEO until Dec. 31 ... Hearst Television promotes Eric Meyrowitz and Ashley Gold to executive vice presidents and group heads, sharing oversight of TV and radio stations with Michael Hayes, executive vice president and group head.
E.W. Scripps appoints for Scripps Networks news division Ethan Nelson, ex-ABC News, as head-program development, and promotes Christina Hartman to head-news standards ... Sinclair names John Manzi from RNN National Media Group as vice president-general manager, KSAS-TV Wichita and simulcast stations in Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas, market; he's also responsible for oversight of KMTW Hutchinson.