Hillary Clinton adds to campaign press team: report

Hillary Clinton has reportedly made two key appointments to the press team of her yet-to-be- announced 2016 presidential bid, US media reports said today.
The press team of the would-be Clinton campaign is growing, with the selection of Karen Finney as Strategic Communications Adviser and Senior Spokesperson and Oren Shur as Director of Paid Media, CNN reported, quoting sources familiar with personnel moves.
The positions will become official once Clinton announces her candidacy, expected this month, it said.
Finney is a longtime member of the 67-year-old Democratic leader, having served as Deputy Press Secretary to Clinton when she was First Lady, after working on Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign.

Finney was a traveling press secretary on Hillary Clinton's 2000 senate campaign and Communications Director at the Democratic National Committee from 2005-2009.
Shur will oversee television, mail, radio and digital advertising. He served as Director of the Democratic Governors Association independent expenditures in 2014 cycle.

Clinton's failed campaign in 2008 was notoriously combative with reporters. She was more at ease with the press corps that covered her while she was Secretary of State, but she has treated reporters with suspicion since her years as First Lady, where attention to controversies often left Clinton feeling assaulted by the media, CNN noted.

"My relationship with the press has been at times, shall we say, complicated," Clinton acknowledged last month.
"I'm all about new beginnings," she added, "A new grandchild, a new hairstyle, a new email account, a new relationship with the press," she had said.
Clinton's 2016 communications staff selections reflect an effort at a reset, the report said.