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The positions will become official once Clinton announces her candidacy, expected this month.

Finney is a longtime member of Hillaryland, 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. As a contributor and host on MSNBC Finney became a prominent Democratic voice in politics, most recently appearing on CNN as a Democratic strategist.

Shur will oversee television, mail, radio and digital advertising. He served as Director of the Democratic Governors Association independent expenditures in 2014 cycle and managed Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon's successful 2012 re-election campaign.

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Clinton is due for a reset with the press. Her 2008 campaign 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's treated reporters with suspicion since her years as First Lady, where attention to controversies often left Clinton feeling assaulted by the media.

"My relationship with the press has been at times, shall we say, complicated," Clinton acknowledged last month as she gave the keynote address at a gala honoring political reporting.

"I'm all about new beginnings," she added, "A new grandchild, a new hairstyle, a new email account, a new relationship with the press."

Clinton's 2016 communications staff selections reflect an effort at a reset. Finney will join a roster of staff who have congenial relationships with reporters, led by Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri, who most recently served in the same role in the Obama White House, and joined by lead spokesman Brian Fallon, and spokesman Jesse Ferguson, who is expected to handle daily communications with the press.

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Yet another setback for Selina Meyer.

According to Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, power-suit ambassador Hillary Clinton may be planning a strategic acquisition of the show's makeup artist, Barbara Lacy. Lacy has done the former First Lady's makeup for years, but also works on the Veep cast (although not Louis-Dreyfus's Selina Meyer). In an interview with Allure, the fictional president expressed her distress:

"Can you believe that we have Hillary Clinton's makeup artist?And now Hillary is apparently announcing soon. So, yeah, I'm confident that we will lose her."

If you've never noticed Clinton's makeup before (unlike her scrunchies), it's a strategic choice. In an interview withThe Hill in 2010, Lacy explained the importance of nuanced campaign makeup:

"My whole job was to make sure that people werent focused on [Clintons] face, she said. Her face cant be a distraction. And that means just looking good and healthy and rested. Youre noticing that the person really looks good, and youre not really sure why, so you keep staring at them. And thats the art."

But the question is, will Clinton send an email or a text to summon Lacy back to work on the campaign trail? Maybe a carrier pigeon is safer.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton has hired a longtimeGoogle executive to oversee her likely presidential campaign's technology development and buildnew ways for Clinton toengage with voters, according to Democrats with knowledge of the move.

Stephanie Hannon, who is Google's director of product management for civic innovation and social impact, will become the chief technology officer of the expected Clinton campaign, according to the Democrats, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the appointment.

At Clinton's New York campaign headquarters, Hannonwill serve on the senior staff and oversee a team of engineers and developers, which could include outside consultants, to devise Web sites, apps and other tools for the former secretary of state and her staff to engage with supporters and voters.

Their first challenge is to have the technological infrastructure in place for Clinton's pending campaign launch, expectedin coming days, to immediately connect with her supporters, capture information about them and raise money from them.

The Clinton team does not plan to debut what one Democrat called "a glitzy, shiny suite of apps" on the campaign's first day but will build innovative tools over time under Hannon's leadership.

Hannon, who has worked in Silicon Valley for two decades, would be the first woman to hold the title of chieftechnology officer ona major presidential campaign. She will work closely with Katie Dowd, a longtime Clinton aide who will serve asthecampaign's digital director, and Teddy Goff, an outside consultant whohelp leaddigital strategy and was the 2012 Obama campaign's digital director.

At Google, Hannon recently hasfocused on building technological tools to help communities respond to natural disasters and sharing information about elections, including ballot locations and candidates. She previously helped develop the popular Google Maps appandoversaw itsglobalexpansion, incorporating geo-coding in dozens of countries and creating the transit tool that allows users to planitinerarieson public buses and trains.

Hannon does not appear to have political campaign experience but hasworked at a number of Silicon Valley companies, including Facebook, Cisco and Intel, according to her LinkedIn profile. She earned a bachelor's degree in computer systems engineering and a master's degree in electrical engineering at Stanford University as well as a master of business administration degree at Harvard Business School.

Philip Rucker is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post, where he has reported since 2005.

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