Paterson Brings on a ‘New Media’ Director

ALBANY—The governor’s office has hired Melanie Hartgraves to run the state web site and do new media outreach.

Hartgraves, who was working as a producer at WRGB-TV Channel 6 in Niskayuna, will serve as director of new media, filling a position that’s been vacant since Jack Downey left the executive chamber work on Eric Read More

David Paterson Needs a Friend, Fast

ALBANY-A week before the process to appoint New York's junior U.S. senator reached its messy end, Governor David Paterson stood onstage at an event with Hillary Clinton and compared his experience in the state's highest office to a dirty movie.

"I've been governor for nine and a half months," Mr. Paterson jokingly told the Read More

ESDC Raids Newsday

Errol Cockfield has joined the Empire State Development Corporation as press secretary, the second Newsday staffer to defect to the state’s economic development agency that is now run by a Long Islander.

How did this happen?

The ESDC’s new senior vice president for communications, A.J. Carter, was the first hire. As Newsday‘s associate business Read More