Posted on 09/12/2013 3:15:08 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Richard Stengel, the top editor of Time magazine for the past seven years, is planning to step down as managing editor for a new job at the U.S. Department of State, sources familiar with the situation tell POLITICO and Capital New York.
If confirmed, Stengel will serve as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, the role responsible for leading “America’s public diplomacy outreach, which includes communications with international audiences, cultural programming, academic grants, educational exchanges, international visitor programs, and U.S. Government efforts to confront ideological support for terrorism,” according to the State Department’s website.
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“Richard Stengel, the top editor of Time magazine..”
I stopped reading here.
What a dope. Leave a cush media job for the last years of a lame duck administration?
Maybe his jaws got tired.
Has anyone seen a Time recently? It’s a lot thinner than I remember. I hope I live to see it die.
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