FCC Press Secretary Kim Hart Exiting

Kim Hart, press secretary to FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, is exiting to join a new unnamed and unlaunched media venture from Politico cofounders Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz. 

She will start Dec. 5 as technology editor.

Wheeler has not said when he is exiting, but it is expected to be by Jan. 20, when a new President is sworn in. Hart's last day is Dec. 2.

Hart joined the FCC in 2014 from Neustar, where she had been head of media relations.

Hart is a former reporter and editor with Politico (she left in 2012), so it will be a reunion with her former boss.

Hart's resume also includes The Hill (Hillicon Valley) and The Washington Post.

Her experience as a former journalist covering  tech and policy, plus her stint with a public company, should make her a good fit for covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and public policy, which is intersecting more and more these days.  

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.