Obama Appoints Former Reporter Shailagh Murray as Senior Advisor

President Obama will name Shailagh Murray, a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reporter, to serve as his new senior adviser, and has tapped Jason Goldman, a Silicon Valley veteran, to become the White House’s first-ever chief digital officer. (Politico)
Murray, who currently serves as Vice President Joe Biden’s deputy chief of staff and communications director, will replace Dan Pfeiffer. And in his new role, Goldman will help expand the White House’s digital outreach, heading its Office of Digital Strategy. (FishbowlDC)
Murray spent nearly 15 years with the Journal as a European correspondent and political and congressional reporter. She joined the Post in 2005, serving as a Capitol Hill correspondent until 2011. Goldman has previously worked at Google, Medium and Twitter, where he was the company’s first “head of product.” (Politico / Dylan Byers on Media)