public affairs

PBS's "Frontline" Considers the "Digital Nation"–A Lot of Handwringing Over the Inevitable, but Watch It Anyway

Kara Swisher in News on February 4, 2010 at 5:26 am PT

Earlier this week, the reliably erudite PBS public affairs program, “Frontline,” aired a documentary called “Digital Nation.” The show’s team races hither and yon interviewing a pile of smart folks–most of whom, thankfully, are not from Silicon Valley–to uncover what’s up with this Internet thing, which the kids seem to love. This egads-no-one-knows-where-this-geekery-is-taking-us worrywartness is probably appropriate, and though nothing new, is well told.

Yahoo Hires Amber Allman as New D.C. Director of Public Affairs

Kara Swisher in News on November 18, 2009 at 9:18 pm PT

Earlier today, BoomTown reported that Yahoo was poised to name a few new top execs at its Silicon Valley HQ. But the company has also hired a new director of public affairs in the nation’s capital–Amber Allman of 463 Communications. With a spate of regulatory issues coming up around its pending search and online advertising deal with Microsoft, Yahoo will need all the help it can get.