How And Why Facebook Hired Its First PR Chief

Mediabistro.com’s editorial department received an early copy of The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick’s book that takes an inside look at Facebook.

In an interesting tidbit, we find out about how and why Facebook hired its first spokesman in the social network’s early days.

Writes Kirkpatrick:

[Facebook CEO Mark] Zuckerberg hated doing interviews and talking in public, but he gave the Stanford Daily a lot of time.

He didn’t want to do many interviews like that in the future.

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