SAN FRANCISCO: The office of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said that Nathan Ballard, director of comunications, plans to step down in February 2010. Ballard, who began working for Newsom in 2007, will return to Earned Media, the strategic communications and media relations firm he founded in 2004. Joe Arellano, chief deputy communications director and press secretary for Latino media for Newsom, has been named acting communications director.
Ballard to leave Newsom's office
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SAN FRANCISCO: The office of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said that Nathan Ballard, director of comunications, plans to step down in February 2010.