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Chris Noriega has been promoted to partner at Verve. The TV lit agent becomes the company's first former assistant to become a partner since the agency was founded in 2010.

EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Devine has been elevated to an agent on Verve‘s TV Literary team. She is the second new agent in the department following the hire of TV Lit Agent Jillian Holch last week.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterVerve has promoted TV lit agent Chris Noriega to partner.He is now the ninth partner at the agency, alongside founders Bryan Besser, Adam Levine and Bill Weinstein, and, Amy Retzinger, Adam Weinstein, David Boxerbaum, Felicia Prinz and Sean Grumman.“We launched Verve over a decade ago with a goal of creating an environment in which interns become assistants , assistants become agents and agents become partners,” the other partners said in a statement. “Noriega’s promotion is extra special as he is the first to make the leap from assistant to partner ! We are excited to add more fuel to our leadership team and look forward to what he accomplishes in this new role.”Noriega previously worked in the finance industry.

A MSNBC producer accused Sen.Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Friday of having a racist double standard over the use of force to quell violent uprisings, even though Cotton published an op-ed in response to the Capitol riot stating "no quarter for insurrectionists." "219 days ago, when the targeted crowd was ... different," MSNBC's Adam Weinstein tweeted, linking to a New York Times op-ed Cotton wrote in June that called for military force, if necessary, to put down violent unrest in major cities.The piece was criticized by liberals at the time as racist due to the racially charged nature of the protests gripping the country at the time.

Verve, the boutique literary agency, is branching into talent representation. The agency has hired veteran talent agent Sean Grumman to head Verve Talent, a move that comes on the agency’s 10-year anniversary.