Aug. 10, 2010 at 10:22 a.m.
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Chicago executives,
Media
By Zoe Galland
Desiree Rogers, left, attends a dinner with Linda Johnson Rice on March 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Earl Gibson III)
Desiree Rogers, the Chicago executive and former White House Social Secretary who was vaulted to international notoriety after uninvited guests crashed a state dinner, has been named the new CEO of Johnson Publishing Co., the publishers of Ebony and Jet magazines.
Rogers had been consulting for the Chicago-based publishing and cosmetics company on a two-month contract. She will now take over day-to-day operations.
In July, Anne Sempowski Ward, the former president and chief operating officer of Johnson Publishing, said she was stepping down, which prompted speculation that Rogers was in line for the job. Get the full story »
June 4, 2010 at 11:09 a.m.
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Media
From the Chicago Sun-Times | Johnson Publishing announced today that former White House social secretary and Illinois Lottery director Desiree Rogers is working as a consultant with the company, which owns Ebony and Jet magazines. She will help with corporate strategy.
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April 29, 2010 at 4:24 p.m.
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Advertising/Marketing,
Policy,
Politics
Former White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers at a reception in March 2010. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)
By Melissa Harris | Desiree Rogers might stay in Chicago. Or she might move to New York. Or
she might do both.
“I’m still deciding if I’m going to be here or I’m going to be in New
York,” the former White House Social Secretary said during a Chicago
Advertising Federation luncheon Thursday at The Palmer House Hilton.
Although Rogers has been spotted at several events in Chicago since
resigning her White House post in February, she said she was moving out
of Washington, D.C., in early May, and that her job prospects were “wide
open.” After her remarks, she told reporters that ideally, she would
like to split her time between New York and Chicago.
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