Ex-WH Social Secretary Desirée Rogers to lead Ebony-Jet

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From Jeremy W. Peters, The New York Times:

Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of Jet and Ebony magazines, announced on Tuesday that former White House Social Secretary Desirée Rogers has been hired to run the day-to-day operations of the company, according to a company press statement.

Ms. Rogers will assume leadership of the company at a time when Ebony and Jet — both trend-setters and industry leaders among publications written for black audiences — have experienced sharp declines in circulation and sales at the newsstand, much as other print publications have.

As White House social secretary, Ms. Rogers broke ground and ruffled feathers. She was the first black person to hold the position. Besides the well-known party crashers incident, she departed rather dramatically with Washington protocol by leaving some of the city’s upper crust — who were not used to being excluded from White House gatherings — off her guest lists.

Recalling her short but stormy tenure, she told The New York Times after resigning in February, “I was symbolic of that change in many respects, and I took the hit.”

Continue to the full article at The New York Times website.