Biden Names Murray Communications Director

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Shailagh Murray, a reporter with the Washington Post, has
been named Communications Director for Joe Biden, managing media relations for
the vice president.

One of the issues the vice president has gotten media
attention for is his promotion of broadband deployment and adoption as a driver
of jobs and competitiveness.

Murray succeeds
Jay Carney, who moved over to become White House Press Secretary with the
departure of Robert Gibbs.

Shailagh has been with the Post since 2005, when she joined
as a Capitol Hill correspondent from the Wall Street Journal's Washington
bureau.

She joins Press Secretary Elizabeth Alexander, Deputy
Press Secretary Amy Dudley and Assistant Press Secretary Liz Allen.

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.