NCTA reorganization after cancellation of its trade show: Brian Dietz promoted to senior vice president-strategic communications; Rob Stoddard moves to senior vice president-industry and association affairs, managing public affairs, member relations, and NCTA meetings and special events ... Jim Henson Co. promotes Halle Stanford to president-television ... Newtec names Steve Mills, ex-Airbus global vice president-sales ... the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association hires Brian O’Hara, ex-NARUC, as senior director-regulatory issues, telecommunications and broadband ... Video encoding firm Vitec promotes Mark D'Addio to senior vice president-sales and marketing.

With Senior Vice President of News-Editorial Director Mike Oreskes resigning "because of inappropriate behavior" (see report) at request of NPR CEO Jarl Mohn, Vice President-News Programming and Operations Chris Turpin named interim leader of the newsroom ... Comcast names California vice presidents, moving within the company: David Brown for business services; Ted Girdner for strategic initiatives and business development; Beth Hester for external affairs; and Jeff Votaw for technical operations ... IHeartMedia hires Michele Madansky, ex-Yahoo, as executive vice president-insights, research and data analytics, effective Nov. 27.

Davis Wright hires from Wireless Infrastructure Association Van Bloys as associate in communications group working on wireless and litigation ... Commerce Assistant Secretary-Administration and Chief Financial Officer Ellen Herbst, performing nonexclusive duties of deputy department secretary, retires from federal government and is hired by University System of Maryland as vice chancellor-administration and finance, effective Nov. 27 ... Among Proskauer Rose promotions to partner Chantel Febus, representing online travel services, media and entertainment and others ... News Media Alliance hires Rebecca Frank, ex-Burson-Marsteller, as director-research and insights.

In Samsung Electronics "leadership for the next phase of its growth," Presidents Kinam Kim, HS Kim and DJ Koh succeed Vice Chairman Oh-Hyun Kwon and Presidents Boo-Keun Yoon and Jong-Kyun Shin as heads of DS, CE and IM divisions; President SH Lee leaves post as chief financial officer and is recommended by outside board members to be chairman to succeed Kwon in March, the first time the company will separate chairman and CEO posts; also in March, the three new division heads will also join the board, on which Kwon, Yoon and Shin remain until then.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai hires from Gibson Dunn Ashley Boizelle as deputy general counsel, with responsibility for administrative law ... FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel taps Umair Javed, ex-Wiley Rein, as legal adviser on wireless and international matters ... Bert Gomez, who recently left Univision (see 1709290028), joins Becker & Poliakoff as senior corporate and government relations director.

Windstream names Curt Allen, ex-X4 Solutions, senior vice president-channel ... National Association of Black Journalists re-elects Sarah Glover, NBC Owned Television Stations, president; Dorothy Tucker, CBS Chicago, as vice president-broadcast; Cheryl Smith, a newspaper publisher-editor based in Dallas, was elected secretary ... Univision Communications names Carolina Santamarina, ex-SBS Portafolio, vice president-client solutions and experiential marketing for Local Media Sales ... Matthew Ballard resigns as Glen Echo Group senior associate ... Netflix promotes Jessica Neal to chief talent officer ... Lobbyist registrations: Fair Isaac analytics software firm, Glover Park Group, effective Oct. 1 ... Google, Jochum Shore & Trossevin, effective Oct. 1 ... Claim Your Health Data Coalition, Steptoe & Johnson, effective Sept. 18 ... Google's X “moonshot' technologies, Franklin Square Group, effective Sept. 4 ... Fair Isaac analytics software firm, Glover Park Group, effective Oct. 1.

MPAA appoints Gail MacKinnon, ex-Time Warner Cable, now part of Charter Communications, executive vice president-government affairs, effective Nov. 13, succeeding Joanna McIntosh, hired by NCTA (see this section of the July 14 issue of this publication) ... Intelligent Transportation Society of America hires Shailen Bhatt, ex-Colorado Department of Transportation, as president-CEO, succeeding David St. Amant, who did those jobs on interim basis ... More promotions (see 1710250012) at Univision Communications: Adam Shippee to senior vice president-corporate business development/head-investor relations; Shippee succeeds Rainey Mancini, who left the company; and also moved up Jenna Silver to vice president-ad sales marketing.

DLA Piper Telecommunications practice adds Ian Forbes, ex-FCC Wireline Bureau Telecom Access Policy Division, as associate ... FCC's Holly Saurer returns to Media Bureau as associate bureau chief from Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel's office, where she was acting media adviser ... Univision Communications promotes: Jennifer Rogers to senior vice president-Creative Services; Ronald Estrada to senior vice president-corporate social responsibility and community empowerment; Stephen Keppel to vice president-social impact and general manager, Rise Up.

Franklin Square Group hires from Information Technology Council Sarah Beth Jansen, with cybersecurity and intellectual property expertise, as partner ... Sony Pictures Entertainment hires Hulu's Mike Hopkins as chairman, Sony Pictures Television, effective late November; heads of SPT domestic and international TV production, distribution, advertiser sales and research, marketing and Sony Pictures Worldwide Networks will report to him; Hulu hires board member Randy Freer to succeed Hopkins as CEO.

Shentel Vice President-Chief Financial Officer Adele Skolits resigns, effective Nov. 7, to work as chief financial officer at Buckeye Broadband, living closer to family; Shentel Chief Operating Officer and ex-CFO Earle MacKenzie delays retirement to be interim finance chief ... Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., hires Kate Forscey, ex-Public Knowledge, as senior tech policy adviser ... Terah Lyons is founding executive director of the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, hired from Mozilla Foundation ... Warner Music Group adds Mark Baker, ex-Diageo, as vice president-public policy and government affairs ... General Electric Chief Communications Officer Deirdre Latour expands responsibilities to also be strategy and leadership adviser, reporting directly to Chairman-CEO John Flannery; also reporting to him is GE Ventures CEO Sue Siegel, named GE chief innovation officer ... LiveXLive Media moves advisory board member Tim Spengler, ex-Simulmedia, to the board of directors.