Former White House press secretary Jay Carney is expected to join Amazon next week as a senior executive, Politico’s Mike Allen reported Thursday.
Carney will serve as a senior vice president overseeing both Amazon’s public relations and public policy departments effective Monday, Allen reported.
The former press secretary will also give up his duties as a political commentator at CNN to focus on the new Amazon gig, according to the report. Carney joined CNN in September and dove straight into an explosive debate with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) over President Obama’s primetime speech addressing the threat of the Islamic State terror group.
