Warner Bros. Discovery Taps Robert Gibbs, Former Obama White House Press Secretary, To Head Communications
deadline.comWarner Bros. Discovery’s search for a new comms chief is over with the media giant expected to name Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary for former president Barack Obama, to the job, Deadline has learned.
The post has been open since January when former corporate communications boss Nathaniel Brown exited. He had been at Discovery since 2019 and was named to the top comms post when Discovery and Warner Media merged in 2022.
Brown led global communications and media relations and served as the conglom’s lead spokesperson. Gibbs is a political consultant, partner in marketing and communications firm Bully Pulpit International, and hosts the podcast Hacks On Tap with David Axelrod and Mike Murphy.
He was a top advisor to President Obama for nearly a decade. Starting as the Communications Director for then-Senator Obama, he served in the same role for the 2008 campaign, as the first White House Press Secretary for the Obama Administration, and as a Senior Advisor on the 2012 re-election campaign.
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