Former White House press secretary Jay Carney is now an Amazon employee

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Jay Carney, the former White House press secretary for President Barack Obama, has joined Amazon as the senior vice president for worldwide corporate affairs, according to a report from Politico on Thursday. In that role, he will report directly to Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.

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Carney, a former Moscow correspondent for Time magazine, stepped down from his post in the Obama administration last May and was at one point rumored to be considering taking a top PR job at Apple. He later joined CNN as a political commentator in September, a role that he is now said to be forfeiting for Amazon. Read more...

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