Former Communications Director to Sen Reid Has Joined Media Matters For America

Zac Petkanas, the former communications director for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), has joined the liberal watchdog group Media Matters For America.

Petkanas will lead MMFA's communications department as the new Vice President of Communication. MMFA is "dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the US media." Petkanas most recently led communications for Wendy Davis' gubernatorial campaign in Texas. Before that he spent two years with Sen Reid, first as Deputy Communications Director on Reid's re-election campaign then as Director of Communications in the Senator's office.