Former White House Spokesman Jay Carney Joins Amazon

Amazon confirms that former White House press secretary Jay Carney is joining the tech company.

Carney will be Amazon's senior vice president leading the company's newly-created "Global Corporate Affairs" department, which includes the existing public relations and public policy teams.

Carney will split his time between the Seattle headquarters of Amazon.com Inc. and its office in Washington, D.C., where Amazon veteran Paul Misener will continue to run the company's lobbying efforts.

Carney, who resigned in May from the White House, will report directly to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. After having the role of President Barack Obama's chief spokesman for more than three years, he was a senior political analyst for CNN.