{"id":470,"date":"2011-11-07T16:38:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=470"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:18","slug":"bill-fox-on-managing-political-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2011\/bill-fox-on-managing-political-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Fox on managing political communication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Bill Fox on managing political communication\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Students in Prof. Paul Wilson&#8217;s POLM 5005 had the opportunity to hear from &#8212; and to question &#8212; Bill Fox, one of the country&#8217;s most experienced and astute political communication managers.&nbsp; A former Ottawa and Washington bureau chief for the <em>Toronto Star<\/em>, he served as press secretary and director of communication for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.&nbsp; He subsequently became senior vice-president of public affairs for Bombardier and CN, and then executive vice-president, communications and corporate development, at Bell Canada Enterprises.&nbsp; The author of <em>Spinwars: Politics and New Media<\/em>, Mr. Fox is currently consultant in government and media relations to Stikeman Elliott LLP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in Prof. Paul Wilson&#8217;s POLM 5005 had the opportunity to hear from &#8212; and to question &#8212; Bill Fox, one of the country&#8217;s most experienced and astute political communication managers.&nbsp; A former Ottawa and Washington bureau chief for the Toronto Star, he served as press secretary and director of communication for Prime Minister Brian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}