FCC's Kenny Leaves For PR Firm

Acting Federal Communications Commission Press Secretary Robert Kenny has left the agency to take a job with Washington-based public relation's firm Mercury Public Affairs.

He will provide media relations services and primarily focus on technology, telecommunications and health care issues, Mercury Managing Director Peter Barden said. Kenny has been filling in since January as FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's spokesman after the departure of Jen Howard in December. Kenny had been working as the lead spokesman for the agency's Public Safety and Homeland Security bureau.