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February 2, 2009 4:14 PM PST

Yahoo PR head resigning

by Dawn Kawamoto
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The deck chairs at Yahoo are a-changing once again, with the company's chief communications officer, Jill Nash, stepping down in the next few weeks, a company spokesman confirmed.

Nash, who joined Yahoo in January 2007 as its PR head, will assist in the transition once her replacement is found, said Brad Williams, a company spokesman, noting that she is not leaving to take another job.

Nash's resignation announcement comes less than three weeks after Yahoo named its new CEO, Carol Bartz.

Her pending departure follows that of Yahoo President Sue Decker, who announced in mid-January plans to resign after she was passed over for the CEO post.

Nash, however, did not have her hat in the ring for the CEO job and it's not clear what her future plans will entail. Nash was not immediately available for comment.

The departure of Yahoo's PR head was first reported in AllThingsD.

Dawn Kawamoto covers enterprise security and financial news relating to technology for CNET News. E-mail Dawn.

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by retrosteve February 2, 2009 4:44 PM PST
Will! she! take! the! punctuation! with! her?
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by ITcomposer February 2, 2009 5:01 PM PST
Abandon ship, all hands this is not a drill!
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by iBuzz February 2, 2009 9:08 PM PST
It must be hell to be at Yahoo now. The company seems so out of touch and dead in the water. Case in point: Mobile. Mobile is one of the most exciting things going on right now, but where is Yahoo? Where are all the Yahoo apps for iPhone, Blackberry, and Android? Yahoo has sites in all the major areas of interest: Finance, Sports, News, Search, Weather, Travel, Autos, Real Estate, IM, Local Events, Music, Movies, TV, Flickr, Hot Jobs, Personals, Astrology, Games, Shopping... the entire gamut of apps! But where are the apps? With the assets and reach they have, they should be owning mobile.

The fact that Yahoo can't (or perhaps has no interest to) release native apps for the hottest platforms on the market tells me that this company has serious problems. It looks like the only thing they have is Yahoo Go, which looks like it was designed in 2003, and looks antiquated even compared to what high school kids are producing these days. What could possibly be the problem? No vision? No leadership? No ability to code in anything beyond HTML and JavaScript?
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by AppleSuxLeo February 3, 2009 5:41 AM PST
She probably got fired by "big package" Bartz.
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