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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

McKenna Joins Bill Clinton's Office

By Marc Ambinder
Dec 4 2007, 12:59 PM ET Comment

Finally, Jay Carson can stop doing two jobs.

The traveling press secretary for Hillary Clinton has spent the past two and a half years tending to the communications shop at the office of William Jefferson Clinton.

For months, he's straddled both worlds.

Today, he gets help. Matt McKenna, currently the comm. dir. for Sen Jon Tester, will be named Bill Clinton's campaign press secretary.

So reporters: direct all those interview requests to him.

McKenna was an early adherent to the cause of electing Tester, and his rise to the creme de la creme of press jobs has been rapid.

As a bonus, McKenna remains in close touch with reporters in the Mountain West and the populist political bloggers who helped elect Tester.

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