Comptroller Stringer Appoints John Mckay As Director Of Communications
(New York, NY) – New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer today announced the appointment of John McKay, former Vice President for Corporate Communications at NBCUniversal, as his new Director of Communications. Mr. McKay will begin work on Monday, May 18.
“As Comptroller, my office has a responsibility to clearly communicate news and information to New Yorkers, and to do so with transparency,” Stringer said. “I am pleased to announce John McKay’s appointment to our communications team, because he brings an extraordinary blend of media and corporate experience to help us meet these responsibilities. John shares my commitment to policies promoting fiscally responsible management and expanding economic opportunity for all New Yorkers, and I look forward to working him on these initiatives.”
As Director of Communications, John McKay will be responsible for framing and implementing both daily and long-range communications strategies for the Comptroller’s Office. He will be in charge of managing external and internal messaging, driving media outreach campaigns from the Comptroller’s Office to communities throughout New York City, and working with stakeholders in all five boroughs to convey information about the Comptroller’s policies and proposals.
Mr. McKay was Vice President of Corporate Communications at NBCUniversal from 2008-2014. Among many responsibilities, he developed and executed media strategies on a wide range of legislative and regulatory issues affecting the company; oversaw all communications aspects of the company’s anti-piracy initiatives; played a pivotal role in communications activities involving the 2011 merger of Comcast and NBCUniversal; managed communications for the company’s Diversity and Inclusion program, and supervised digital teams producing entertainment-focused videos for NBCUDirect.com.
Prior to that, Mr. McKay worked for Sony Music Entertainment/Sony BMG, joining in 1997 as the Director of Editorial Services, and subsequently holding positions of increasing responsibility, including Vice President of Media Relations from 2002 to 2004, and Vice President of Communications from 2004-2008. Before that, he was Manager of Media Relations for Sony Worldwide Networks, and a Senior Account Executive at Bender, Goldman & Helper in New York.
Mr. McKay, who lives in Brooklyn, earned a B.A. Degree in East Asian Studies with a minor in Religious Studies in 1987 from Pennsylvania State University.
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