Obama Names Carney Spokesman in Completion of Staff Changes
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President Barack Obama yesterday picked Jay Carney, Vice President Joe Biden’s spokesman and a former Time Magazine journalist, as his press secretary as he wraps up a staff shakeup two years into his administration.
Carney, 45, will succeed Robert Gibbs, who has worked with Obama for more than six years and is stepping down next month to become an outside political adviser to Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign.