Former Bush administration communications counselor Karen Hughes is joining Burson-Marsteller as global vice chair. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news. The hire adds a bipartisan flavor to an agency much in the national political of late for the role CEO and president Mark Penn played as chief strategist to Hillary Clinton's failed presidential campaign.
Hughes will be based in Austin, TX, and report to Penn. Hughes from 2005 to late 2007 was the public diplomacy chief at the ...