Warner Bros. Names Former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers Head of Communications

By Ben Fritz 

Dee Dee Myers, a former press secretary for President Bill Clinton, is taking over communications for Hollywood film and television studio Warner Bros.

Ms. Myers on Wednesday was named head of corporate communications and public affairs for Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros., where she will oversee world-wide communications for the company, as well as its philanthropic endeavors.

She was chosen by Warner Bros. Chief Executive Kevin Tsujihara, who took over the studio a year ago, to replace Susan Fleishman, who had held the communications post for nearly a decade.

After leaving the White House in 1994, Ms. Myers worked as an author and political commentator. Since 2010, she has been managing director of the Glover Park Group, a communications and lobbying firm in Washington, D.C.

She isn't the first political veteran to move into a similar job in Hollywood. The head of corporate communications at Walt Disney Co. also come from politics, as did the former head of corporate communications for Sony Corp.'s Sony Pictures Entertainment.

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