Congratulations to Alyssa Farah on her new gig as press secretary to Vice President Mike Pence. Farah most recently was the communications director and a top adviser to the House Freedom Caucus; Bloomberg has named Craig Gordon, previously executive editor, as its new Washington bureau chief (h/t Politico); JPMorgan Chase adds seasoned legislative hill staffer and former vice president of government affairs for PNC, Alyssa Marois, to its DC office; After a decade with FTI Consulting, Casey Clark has joined the American Gaming Association as vice president for strategic communications; National Restaurant Association lobbyist Joel Bailey recently made a move to the hill, to serve as chief of staff to Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-CA); NBC News adds NY Post’s Claire Atkinson to head up its new media unit. Ben Smith (BuzzFeed News), Gabriel Sherman (Vanity Fair), Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka (Recode) also join as contributors; Beth Ludwick has joined the Consumer Specialty Products Association as vice president of communications and marketing. Ludwick has also worked for the American Association for Homecare and the Grocery Manufacturers Association; The Washington Post has shifted Steven Ginsberg from senior politics editor to national editor; Cornerstone Government Affairs adds former Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) staffer Camila Knowles to its Atlanta operation; The American Clinical Laboratory Association recently named Sharon West as its new vice president of legal and regulatory affairs. West most recently served as the long-standing director of economic and regulatory affairs for the College of American Pathologists; Tusk Strategies adds Gov. Bruce Rauner aide and former Sen. Mark Kirk staffer (R-IL) Lance Trover as its first Republican; Chief of government relations for the APA Ariel Gonzalez has joined the Podesta Group as a principal. Gonzales also previously led federal health and family advocacy at AARP; Tyler Houlton is now deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Houlton was the director of federal affairs at Americans for Prosperity; From the American Legislative Exchange Council, Taylor McCarty joins DDC Public Affairs as a communications strategist; Snap Inc. welcomes Joanna Rosholm, former press secretary for former first lady Michelle Obama, as deputy head of global brand strategy; Bill Brink has a new role at the New York Times, making a switch from media editor to retail and consumer editor; The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee adds veteran comms strategist Mara Sloan as communications director; Monument Policy Group’s Katharine Lister is joining Amazon as director of transportation affairs; Alleigh Marré, most recently a national spokesperson for HHS, recently started at the Pentagon as special assistant and deputy chief of staff to the Air Force Secretary; Former U.S. ambassador to Tunisia Gordon Gray joins the Center for American Progress as its new chief operating officer. Gray makes the move from his current role as the executive vice president of the U.S.-Arab Chamber of Commerce; NASAA’s Anya Coverman has joined the Investment Program Association as director of government affairs and general counsel; Pulitzer Prize finalist and former CNN reporter Thomas Frank is joining BuzzFeed News as a national security and counterintelligence reporter; Tim Young has joined the Washington Examiner as a video journalist. Young was previously with The Daily Caller and is the host of the popular comedy show, ‘No Things Considered’; LendUp recently promoted Jotaka Eaddy from head of government affairs to vice president of policy, strategic engagement, and impact; The Clyde Group adds Grigsby Crawford as a senior director, Kaitlin Rymer as a junior associate and Josh Benjamin as a digital junior associate; CNN adds New York Times op-ed columnist and american journalist Frank Bruni as a contributor; The American Trucking Associations recently added Ed Gilroy and Jay Lim as senior vice president of legislative affairs and vice president of legislative affairs. Before this, Gilroy was director of workforce policy for the House Education Committee, and Lim most recently served as counsel to Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME); Former deputy chief of staff to Valerie Jarrett Monique Dorsainvil recently joined Facebook’s D.C. office as a public policy manager for external affairs; After more than 25 years as a public affairs officer for the US Army, Justin Platt has joined Edelman as vice president for media strategies and services; And finally, congratulations to TIME’s new Washington bureau chief, Massimo Calabresi!